| Show oil I 1 research e ear ohp performs effo mira miya miracles C les jes in in life na nature t ur blessed ihli country with an abundance of j um nut but in its iti natural state petroleum has ha little usefulness 1 must be broken dupard up and pro cussed into the many mapy pro product ducts giac ulac nrc arc c L used iseman in i vyv everyday every day ay lives ilves aca vua g gasoline a 0 t ne kerosene t yuel fuel and eun fun r 1 6 3 oils ana and a 0 epst of and that thai Is iii igi nii ingv ja where kanun clata in th the nations petroleum research laboratories have play cu and are arc playing outstanding if these those chemists and scientists developed ways to breakup break up and juggle the them min uto p articles particles of petroleum add adding in to some bome subtracting su from 0 others tg ers and reforming them theme we have the many useful petroleum etro laum that thai wo we enjoy oy today their search never ends and to most of us they work miracles oil supplies supplier oil company researchers how ever are not confining their solely to increasing the tho num number ef and quality of useful products that can be taken from a barrel of crude oil they are working equally successfully in 14 developing flexible r refining e f an fn I 1 n methods that will enable oil oil compan companies ids to produce produce in greatest volume ae the products for which ther there d is the largest demand and to cut down the manufacture of products in little demand since colonel drake drilled the first commercial oil well at Titus titusville ville in westen pennsylvania ninety years ago the them oil industry has developed int into 0 one of the great scientific industries of modern times millions of dollars have been n invested in re scap seap search c 16 p plants ants that are among the most t up to date and exten sive live in the world the industry started with ond onri important product ke rosine today thanks to research it markets moro moio than 1 direct Y and synthetic product and the end jsn Is not ot I 1 in n kight sight kight right down dow it ithe ahe iines sc lentif lc collaboration li 1 putting petroleum to work for or the bubli c lennew new and dna dra dram ati atio atlo waw way typical examples bhain P 1 of research a are e better and lubel catine eating oils these andi and ma many ay other petroleum products now in use we were rebern bem in the 1 labo labora ril rii lorica ef year past gasoline im ra kod vod the improvement 0 gasoline Is prowess through petroleum if tho the industry hadbo had to depend aon ion on processes ases of forty years ag ago ait oit it could hardly hurdly make enough gd gasoline soline t to 0 i run 40 per I 1 centon of aotoa from rom the volume of crude oil now being process processed sied sled cd moreover it quality had bad to depend depond depend on the gasoline of those early years we could not have the cars 6 of today deve developments op in automotive engineering tha that have resulted in the present efficient engines have been made possible by advancements in the science of m manufacturing motor fuel the power poet of automo automobile engines has almost doubled in the thi past three decades while in the mileage per pen er gallon of gasoline consumer consumed has been increased about one quarter ed mileage has meant m bant savings savino to 10 american motorists of close cloge cl oto ode one b dollars annually fuels the development of high octane aviation gasoline was one of the dramatic episodes in the winning of the recent war it illustrates the kind of demands that have been made on petroleum research laboratories in the past high octane gasoline is clearing the way for the use of higher compression engines for new standards in power and economy at the present time research also Is being directed to the new turbine fuels forjet for fon jet i propulsion w howare how the hydrocarbons or fuels for these newer newet types of en gines fit git together and act under actual operation determines what type of petroleum product will provide the greatest efficiency lubbic lubricating ug oils high quality lubricating 0 oils olis ils lis are just justas important to present day automobiles automobile s as high quality an and d outstanding improvements improve prove provo ments have been made in the tho field of lubricants car would knock badly if it were fueled with g gasoline of say twenty years ago and it certainly would spend much of its time in repair shops shop if it were lubricated with the oils land and greases of that time scientists are studying ad or chemical agents which h maintain the fluidity of lubrich lubrica lubricating oils at low tem temperatures peri pert and their body at high temperatures to fit them for ford service under the extreme pressures of various types of modern gears garz and to reduce corr corrosion 0 of bearings one a uch such additive for instance prevents oil from jelling in cold weather r while another helps oil oll carry heavy loads imposed by increasingly powerful engines s r helped win war petroleum research also aiso made important contributions winnins winning of the last war not not hot only d did doil oil companies supply large quantities quani ties of high octane e aviation gasoline which enabled our planes to fly higher faster and farther than those of our enemies but they also produced huge quantities of toluene an essential ingredient of TNT ex p plosive losice and that t toluene e cost on only 1 one fifth of the cost for fog mal mai making makine ng it from coal synthetic rubb rubber er and the processes for maki makl making ngit it were other important factors in winning the w war ar development too made P possible epi epe sible by petroleum research oday today in oil company labora tonies lories ail all over the country research is pushing the frontiers forward new petroleum products byproducts by for chemicals drugs drug plastics resins and varnishes paints and wrapping materials better detergents j fungicides and are being developed from petroleum kr there are arc mere more lbanks than 4 people engaged in petrol petroleum cumre research today thirty years age there were fewer than 1200 iw technicians american oil com cow panics pinies are now spending more nore tha than n loo million a year on re search to keep pace with the mand for more and better I 1 ducts J for the public at reasonable prices right now petroleum laboratories are busy on procesa ser for the manufacture of liquid fugas and lubricants from ans america enormous supplies of coal voel skam swam shoU and natural gas ga on thi remmel alone in inthe dhe indo are spending about hen tea dol doi dollars lairs annual annually 13 As A a ji leading IM so aptly rutlt put au 4 bhe he objective ac 4 win A a L 12 res reo research earch is thi th vr 1 tive of m long iong K life te barfort war wort fort to imn I 1 and ad 1 to 1 en ty aaa aad antte |
