Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1926, Page 11

OIL CONSERVATION Federal Board Urges General Co-operation to Prevent Petroleum Shortage. A comprehensive plan of protection Against petroleum shortage calling for eo.operation hetween ol producing States and the Federal Government. between the States and between oil operators was outlined today by the Federal Oilp Conservation Board in a reliminary report transmitted to sident Coolidge. Present ofl production in the United States, the hoard declared. exceeds the estimated maximum requirements for national defense in time of war and the hoard urged State governments promptly to study the economic ad vantage of co.operation between land owners and oil operators looking to- ward sane development of new fields, eliminating of waste of gas and the gasoline content of petroleum and the wiping ont of the huge loax ineident to reduction of gAR pressure in the ofl sands, Duty of 0il-Producing SNtates, While the Federal Government fs eommitted to practical conservation of all irreplaceable raw materials, the board said. there &hould be active co operation hetween oil-producing States in the “study of proposed le to the and that uniform laws m: enacted. or even agreements pacts entered iIntn hetwean & Suhject 10 ratification hy Congress.” Co.operation hetween State agencies having authority to regulate oil and gas production, and the Federal bu reans’ experts on ofl, the hoard held would he “especially effective in the oil fields of the public land States where Federal leases and raserves are seientifie: supervised hy Federal engineers. who can Attain hest results only with the full cooperation of the Ktate ofclals. ™ F.conomies could he effected, the re. port continued. within the industry it #eIf by adoption all along the 1 eo.aperative methods in hoth r and action The report. signed hy Work. ehairman: Dwight F. Wilhur and Hoover, who make up the hoard, dealt entirely with domestie rvh ofl conditions, and was formulated at | the direction of the President after ha had heen advieed that “failure tn bring in prodneing wells for a two — Extra Store News Crowded Out of Our Regular Advertisement on Page 12 25¢ l.isterine With Thic Coupon and 18c 25e hottles of three.ounce Il known germi cide. Tomorrow at Isc, with this coupon only. <) Secretaries | Davis, | vear period would slow down ‘the whesls of industry and bring serious industrial depression.” Other Reports in Prospeet. Two other reports will he presenteq | | situation ax it relates to American | interests, and the other regarding possible substitutes and the develop- | ment of the oil shale {ndustry. Declaring that.proven oil resources do not imply future production, xhe\ boird voiced its principal concern oved the fact that present reserves are estimated at out 4,500,000,000 | harrels, theoretically but six yvears' #upply, adding that while the isting | reserves do not an a sh of =uppliex, their life, as compared \\xlh proven iron and coal flnm\ll \\hlth‘ are guaged centuries in advance, wag “such ax always to maintain concern.” ; #Tracing the history of the oil in. Austry from the discovery of the first successful well in northwestern Penn. | syivania in 1859, to the end of June, 1926, during which time 900000 0 barrels of crude oil were produced, the report “ointed out that one-third of thix 1. 1 war taken from the ground in less than five vears, with the 1925 production exceeding 750, 000,000 barreis. It was held. there. fore, that provigion of future sup- plies, in the face of this greatly en. hanced production in recent years, must come from the following sources: Fxisting reserves, possible discovery v sands in the known areas by drillings. possible discovery of new flelds, improved methods which will recover a larger proportion of the ofl, better utilization of crude olls by diversion from less essential to more essential uses —such as conver- sfon of fuel oil into gasoline—-bhetter control of the flush flow from newly discovered flelde, economies in con- simption by improved mechanieal de- vices, supplies from distillation of oil shales and coal. and foreign oil flelds, Plea to Private Enterprise. “The major part of the measures that must he taken to protect our future supplies.” the report said, “mugt rest upon the noimal com mereial initiative of private enter- prise.” “This fleld for zovernmental action s considerable,” it added, “but to formulate the hroader by-lawa of the industry in the sense of conservation and to concentrate thought upon them is the major part of the boardi task in co.operation with the in dustry.” The directions in which the industry could contribute 1o assure future ‘mlp]\lh‘s were enumerated as: “Continued exploration for exten- ston of known sands and deeper sands in known fields. “Continued exploration fields. “Systematic research and experi- | ment upon methods of securing a Jarger proportion of the ofl from the | rands for new IT PAYS TO Sale of Comforts at Savmgs Usual $4 and $S Grades $2.65 Usual $6 and * $7 Grades $3.85 The Coverings are of fine many figured hoth <ides with hath sides. 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The contributiona which the Gov- ernment could make were described a Continued and expanded research by the Geological Survey in geologic | studies of the accumuiation of oil and structure of ofl-bearing areas: by the Bureau of Mines into methods of roducing and refining. including oil shales, and by the Bureau of Stand- ards into questions of constitution and utilization of ofl products. “The more intelligént handiing of overnment-controlled oll sourcea on public and Indian lands.” Of all the fundamental conservation measures, the board urges that co- operative mathods he used in develop- ing new fields, and regarding the question of Federal authority, said the Government's power to regulate ofl production, doubtless was limited to its own oil lands, unless national defense was imperiled by waste or ex- haustion of supp As to the s on that the Gov- ernment’s jurisdiction as a sovereign owner of ofl under itz land may ‘“‘jus- ity and authorize Federal legislation to prohibit adjoining owners from ap- propriating the oil hy means of wells drilled on their property.” it asserted that it involved implications concern- ing State and Federal power. but State legislation for protection of ownefs would he preferable, and that Federal authority. if any. should be invoked only when “it is cléar that the State is unwilling”or fails to aet.” Military Needs Discussed. “The hoard concurred in the general conclusions of the Naval Oil Regerve Cornmission regarding wartime needs and protective measures. and said the Government should provide an ade quate petroleum supply for all future military needs. “Tank storage sufficient to meet in- itial demand.” it held. ‘“should he built and-maintained intact against a wartime _emergency. 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