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Show UTAH OIL REFINERY PLACED IN OPERATION The following in regard to the Utah Oil Refining Co., is taken from the Oil and Gas Journal: The Utah Oil Refining Co., subsidiary subsidi-ary of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, has just completed and placed in operation op-eration at its plant on the north shore of the Great Salt Lake near Salt Lake City, Utah, a new battery of Homes-Manlcy Homes-Manlcy pressure stills at a cost of $000,000. Other improvements costing $1,000,000 have been completed within the past year. Total investment now is in excess of $5,000,000. The plant has a charging capacity of 5,000 bbls. of crude oil per day, which with pressure still capacity, brings total up to 8,000 bbls. The plant is unique in one respect. It is located in the center of a state that has no oil-producing fields of importance im-portance and crude has to be transported trans-ported long distances by rail. At present pres-ent most of its oil comes from Wyoming Wyom-ing and Colorado. For a while it received re-ceived shipments from New Mexico and at one time transported oil from Montana, this oil passing through Wyoming and Colorado and involved one of the longest shipments for crude by rail in the country. Supplies now are being developed nearer home. Considerable oil is being received from the La Barge Filed in southwestern Wyoming, the oil being trucked from the field to Opal where it is transferred transfer-red to tank cars. A contract recently was made with the California Petroleum Petrol-eum Corp. for its ouput from the La Barge Field under an agreement that provides for the construction of a pipe line when production amounts to 2,000 bbls. a day. The development is expected ex-pected to reach that figure shortly and plans provide for building the line in the spring. GrcaUr Gasoline Output Utah Oil Refining Co. estimates that its output of gasoline in 1928 will a:;-grr-gate 50.000.000 gallons. The product pro-duct is shipped into seven states. In adition, it has an output of 200 tons of paraffin wax per month for which it. has developed a profitable market, most of it being exported to China and Japan. The plant occupies 120 acres and gives employment to 400 persons partments. Daily crude oil receipts at parlments. Daily crdue oil receipts at present average 5,150 bbls. These represent rep-resent one trail load jyr day. Outgoing Outgo-ing products equal a trail load each day. |