New oil wells, bored for the most part last year or earlier, but not yet worked, must be brought into exploitation. "That, says official journal, Industria, is the chief task facing Russian oil trusts this year.
The fact that the oil output plan for 1938-1989 was not carried. out in full was largely due to these wells being still unworked, But the borers themselves were also responsible for the country getting hundreds of thousands of tons of oil less than the output expected-for those two years.
The first months of 1940 did not show the necessary improvement. Boring was unsatisfactory. For instance, in February only 63.2 per cent.'ef the boring-plan' was fulfilled, and ät the end of the first quarter, the borers were still in debt to the Fatherland To remedy this shortage Industfia calls for a great drive to bring 2,135 wells into operation. previous article, which appeared in the same journal' under the heading." for High Quality Oil," urged the ite closing in from air contact, so-called hermetisation, of all oil storage, and the order issued by Kaganovich, People's Commissar, two years ago, to build closed stone reservoirs. Azerbaidjan, in the Baku oil region, has extremely big reserves of the best oil in the world, producing a high-grade benzine and the finest lubricants, But from ancient times pocket tae GORALS tied to deve A ive a wedge between the British and He Valer it id, but e arenas abet' side bt te Allied artillery" again defeated the strong German' infantry concentrations preceding the tanks, the reports if more this battle de-
14 artillery. The Germans a great number of Skoda Azerbaidjan has used open earth pits or reservoirs for storage.
High grade and low grade oil are in this way mixed together in the same pits and enormous quantities of gasoline are lost in the air, However,' Industria' declares that much work has already been done in the Azer! aid jan fields in the building of closed reservoirs in which each grade of oil has been kept apart. Dozens of open pits have been discarded and over a thousand oil wells have been changed over to the sealed method of exploitation. In the following Azerbaidjan oil fields the high octane types of naphtha are now graded and stored separately: Lennineft, Stalineft, Molotoffneft and Kaganovichneft. Similar steps have been taker in other fields.
A group of specialists from the Moscow Metro Underground Railway has been sent to Baku and has worked well on the building of sealed reser-vairs. This is the first step to the ~omplete hermetisation of oil produc. tion. them: along the Lys River the Rhine front the fierce King Leopold with sergeant Maginot, for, despite dent made in the and; since its big' guns methodically hammering and the German e, -the noland between the two fortified been miraculously emptied trols which, during the first months of the war, infested those unfortified regions on both sides of the frontier.—United Press. n Casualties Caused by Three Waves also reached the city. As visibility was still' poor the raiders could not
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