Bucharest, Nov. 23.
Both official and petroleum circles today said that special efforts were being made to export important quantities of oil, with the greater part going to Germany before the Danube froze over.
A Government spokesman told the United Press that navigation on the Lunube "will be maintained until it freezes over and, judging from the present mild weather, it appears that navigation will be safe until the end of December."
During the long period of mobilization and demobilization and the moving of refugees from occupied ceded territories, railroad authorities pointed out, it was impossible to place sufficient rolling stock at the disposal of the petroleum industry to avoid the shutting down of many producing wells after all the reser+ vairs were filled.
The shortness of petrol barges and the limitation of pipelines to Port Giurgiu forced many companies to halt the flow of crude oil from large wells.
If the effort to empty the reser* vairs through the Danube succeeded before winter, it was understood that the choked wells would be opened and crude oil production would return to normal Normal production is estimated at 16,000 tons daily.
Meanwhile, petroleum circles res ported that more and more big German tank cars were coming to the ed Press.
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