Show Where Does the World Get Its Supply of Oil JL JL J co Three Nations Control Output Output Out Out- Output put of Industries' Industries Lifeblood Discussion of oil embargoes In connection with the Italo war raises the question Where does docs the world vorM get Its oil elan leum leuta deposits have been bren found In la every continent except Antarctica but well-defined well pools are ore wIdel widely scattered Actually a very few nations na on- control the supply of this tills life life- Wood Mood of ot modern modem Industry Three countries produce about HI per cent of ot the worlds world's petroleum output says the Notional National Geographic ic society These are the United States Soviet Russia and Venezuela If It all three should cut off ort their oil supplies man many steamships trucks automobiles armored tanks airplanes air airplanes planes and railroads nil all over the I world would be stopped as well ns as I Industries depending on oil for fuel or lubrication Great Britain through her control of distribution of oil produced produced produced pro pro- In her dominions and colonies and In many other countries also laa la I Ia a powerful factor In the tho worlds world's oil situation Italy Produces Little ellA Oil ell OilA A general oil embargo would practically threaten Italy's Ital's motors with starvation star for Italy In the en entire entire tire the year rear of ot 1031 34 produced only as lIS much oil nil as the United States docs does In about two hours bours Almost 00 DJ per cent of ot the worlds world's oil comes from only twelve coun roun tries Ital Italy Is but one of ot the many nations which would have to coin coin- bine their petroleum resources to tomake tomake tomake make up the other 1 per cent While the three lending nations are making production history by their thundering progress alon along the oil oft troll trail four others follow tollow them In Ina Inn ina a n group although man many laps taps behind Iran Persia Nethel lands Indies and MeC Mexico I co Almost neck and nOlI neck live lint more follow along Colombia Argentina Peru India and Trinidad which pro produce luc less than 1 t per cent of the worlds world's annual output each OH oil Also Found Under Water The distribution of petroleum seems to show how a slight alight preference for the western hemisphere and ami for forthe forthe forthe the northern side of the equator Nevertheless NC It Is found In such extremes as ns Iraq where Iron muscled Iron Kurds work In Jul July heat heal at 11 degrees de de- grees grecs In the shade and north of Point narrow Harrow In Alaska where frozen trot trot- en clods of ot soaked oil earth arc burned as 81 a substitute for coal conI Water ns as well ns as earth may mal lie above petroleum Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo black with oil oil Is studded with derricks which workmen reach by bridges of narrow planks plank from the shore and Is supervised from n a floating camp on n a barge The Sum Summerland Summerland merland field OeM of or Santa Barbara count county coun coun- ty t California extends beyond the shoreline of the so flO that derricks derricks der der- ricks wade Into the ocean to draw tip up oil from several hundred feet teet below sea level The United States leads the world In oil production Recently a din dla mond Jubilee marked the Industry's seventy fifth anniversary since Col Cot Edwin Drake Brake sank tho the country's first oil nil w I 1 70 10 feet Into the rich Appa Allpa lachlan field at Titusville Ia Pa Oil Is still produced In Pennsylvania especially rape espe chilly for tor the manufacture of lubricants cants Texas Fields Date Data From 1901 In 1001 the tho rich Texas oil fields were brought In In startIng starling a branch of the Industry which In In pro worth north of oil more mort than the combined production of or the two next richest areas Oklahoma and California The latest t r 1 ular deTel development Is rs that of t the t Lots Lea t i Gulf coast which doubled Its 1 IlIJ i I production In 1 1134 H. H One geologist i estimates that the United States nl- nl rend ready producing 01 61 per Iler cent cef of or th the tb J worlds world's oil from Its two million acres of oil fields actually hRS has more than f v va fa I Ia s a billion acres untouched Running Bunning second Soviet Russia's government controlled ed oil all production rose rese In 1034 to barrels with acres and acres of or oil seepages seepages' undeveloped or eT even n t Venezuela keeps third place plate at ata ata a n gait which Is amazing In view of the fact fad that production began there less than twenty years ears ago alo Petroleum constitutes 75 73 percent per per- percent cent of the country's exports Ku- Ku mania manta taking f fourth rth place from Iran In 1034 1034 1014 still has bus many undeveloped areas 4 |