Show r C Chang al ig ig Conditions Alter Alter I Standards of Oil Industry TULSA Okla OkIa April AprI 16 CAP CAP- AP APon Oil on refiners of ot the nation naton are pictured pictured pic plc- as being crushed by two powerful powerful pow pow- cr erful ul forces in th the Oil Oi and Jour Gas nal of Tulsa and anci the Industrial Bulletin Bul Bul- letin publications devoted t to the oil on industry The two forces are production Increasing w beyond norm normal l demand due to Improved refining processes and new oil 01 pools and decreasing consumption due to the discovery of ot antiknock qualities in low gravity crude oil 01 and continual Improvement im improvement improvement Im- Im provement in internal combustion engines The Oil Oi and aas as Journal Joural stressed the ever increasing variation be between between between be- be tween consumption and production of or gasoline on which it blamed re recent recent recent re- re cent reductions in the price of ot crude at the wells wels and for re repeated re reductions reductions re- re gasoline in the price of refined T. T The Industrial Bulletin is author antiknock of ot the declaration that quai qualities qualities' tes in low grade crude threaten threat threat- en further cheapening of the price of ot gasoline During DurInA the first forty years of ot the AT rican Ar rican petroleum industry the Bulletin declared red the chief product was kerosene and the price of crude oil oU was largely determined by the kerosene content of the crude and the tho market for this commodity The advent of the motor car the Bulletin continued has made gasoline the chief chiet factor in determining determining determining deter deter- mining th the price ot crude Not only the quantity ot of gasoline originally present in the crude crude- crude technically known as straight run gasoline gasoline but but but the additional amount obtained by cr cracking had then to be taken into account in adjusting prices for tor crude and other petroleum products Today roday loday another force must be COn dered the antiknock value vahe of both the straight run and cracked gasoline In the light o of the above a price revision may be expected In favor ta or of such low g gravity as Smackover from which high quality antiknock gasoline can be produced by cracking It I was only a few ye years rs ago that gasoline of highest rating and price was the straight run material from paraffin base crude such as Penns Pennsylvania Penn Penn- s sylvania It I was wag sweet to smell water white in color and of ot high test when measured on the Baume gravity scale and the specifications f for r all al gasoline were written to cover these properties One still hears occasionally of ot this Goo Gao High Test gasoline However in inthe inthe th the light of ot present knowledge it itIs itis I is known that a gasoline of low Baume gravity Is better beter than that With Wih a high test all al other propertIes properties proper proper- ties des including volatility being the same Today that antiknock quality qua qua- ity iy of or a gasoline rather than color odor gravity and the like is the he true measurement as this property In gasoline more than any other governs its is performance In gas en en- en gines The publications rate g gasoline soUne from paraffin as that causing the worst knocking in motors that from the California and Russian as the least and that from east the area and gulf gul coast as intermediate Cracked they thy say Is rated rated better beter than straight run |