TRADE AGREEMENT DETAILS/PETROLEUM PRODUCTS SPECIFICATION/ANALYSIS OF SOVIET AVIATION GAS

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: April 14, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGEN9'`l
INFORMATION REPORT
SLEJECT Tredc Agreement Details/Petroleum Products Specif-~cattari
PLACE ACQUIRED
(BY SGUACE)I
During the 1954 1-.1a ortation period, the ( SR will supply 'ol.1oving
Motor Gasoline
300,000 tons
(26:.,467 tons)
Aviation Gasoline
500
25
Turbo Fuel
" 500
Kerosene
18,000
( 22,083 )
Vaporizing oil
55,000
55,=45
Gas Oil.
100,000
93,8+3
Distillate Fuel Oil
(Marine Diesel)',
130,000 "
(107,379
Residua: Fuel Oil'
160,000
156,786 " )
Lubricating Oila
9,250 "
4,095 " )
quantities (we mention in brackets the apIprorimete nuantitien
imported during the 1954 importation periid):
Total ,773,250 tonn
S 700,8':'3 "
In excesn of the above,, the Soviets will also supply cmaJ?.er
quantities of solvent naphthao, wnite ap*its, toluol, pczaffin
and asphalt, totalling approximately 18,000 tons.
The prices for vinl.and .c:r 1954 are advised to be based or
Platt's Oilgram'c Low Gulf euotstion f.o.bb. export harbours, i.e.
Constantay,, IsAtum or Tuapse. The Rur,cian-~+innirh company, who
ae t,u au ,.,scnts for all imports of main pc~t~ro) eum products from
the USSR and Rumania, debits an agent's ck>araisaion of 1% on
above mentioned f.o.b. prices Par nil nus~tities delivered thrcugh
the Finnish authoritiestc? marketers cthex :.han their own seal:
marketing company.
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The sviation gasoline i , -upponed to be a cur.;ity corre -'or_ding to
avgas 00/1?0, but from q E1A:r J e N~? arrived r '-Fr:. ificatio^ a
in attachiuert N?-. ..
^uroo fce1 i : ;liad %77ua1ity T-l% , Du'; no =i
known yet. I,
For Kerosene iC, Riven the co7cur spcr_lf!cnti`1 or.*y . tamrer -"..i
(correspondi.rg to ^=_ybolt 16.5`. ue know from experience thgt the
kerorere lest year sometimes had a very Poor plcud'point, between
-P2?C and 31?^ only.
"e vaporizing oil is offered a nur+llty with 5,F1 Oct. CF; Moto-
Method, but the dirtillaticn curve does not rime ,:p to cur 1?x:41
renuirementn.
The distillate fuel, oil will presumably be A mixture of 95% of the
rbove mentioned Llter native) gasoil qaalitles r.nd 5'#, of residua'
fuel oil.
Regarding the gnsoi.l the aw lity will deper.d on t:hether the oroducti
will. be supplied from Rumania or the export 'rorbeurn or, the e" t
side of the Black sea, which iR not yet known. The Ruminian Qe.noil
has been a 56-58 dicael index nuality with for Finnish conditions
very unsuitabl.: cloudpoint,l around t 0 only. The gesol l 1:h1i ned
from Batum bar a die,,el index of approximately 48, but nn 41-M clouapoint one Pn u3TM pour point which rometimer go dcwr to -30?,^
r.nd .40?C, rerpectzvely.
Ridual f::? .. of ' he no-0111"A mazut hrn p viscosity of ?:1_?5?
ingier nt 500": and an ?pour point If x-1.0 . tl5?C. There Kee
oleo been eume to.:.k about ap el*ern'16ive cua1ity with vircoRity
12-15? En ler at 500C ene pour point -5?C, but this our:lity would
have a culr'-ur content of 2'.%, the above mint coned ounlity hk.ving
? low 0.L?;v ;.Lphur.
Regarding lubricating, oils it might be mentior}ed that no high grade
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negotiations about re-exportation of
Soviet oil products trough the Finnish authorities to Western
nurt..pean countries were ca.eied out in Moscow.
T* reason for thene negotiatlono, from the vilewpoint of the Finnish
Government, is to get come of Finland's fairly large currency
omounta receivable from the~Ecntern bloc transferred to Western
currencies which, ae well known, still are aenrce in Finland. Amrng
others, rn-exportation to Switzerland of 100,000 tone masut, pour
point C, vats discussed.
Further they prelim.nari1diacuancd re- e ortltion to rveden 7
,y xp , Belgium,
France, Western Germany, Italy and Sou,,:h America, and one of the
representatives of the Finnish Government edvi~ed the suppliers that
he was intereeted in re-exporting gannil, diatillate .'uel oil,
meaut, crude oil, toluol,? acid paraffin..
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Attachment No. 1
"Certificate of Gasoline Analysis No. 1820/53
Aviation Gasoline, T.B.
Herttonie>Ri
Arri'ed 22 Dec
Ready 30 Dec Helsinki, 30 T)ec 53
Specific veight at 150C 0.7252 ASSTM D910-5?'r 4N-!-486
Octane No. C.F.R.-M.M. 96.5
Distillation:
Initial Boiling !, Point
43?C
Final
164?c max 1700
max
2700
Residue %
1.3 >rax 1.5
'lax
1.
Lose %
1.7 max 1.5
max
1.5
Total %
97.0 min 97
% Distilled at
50?C
600
700
3.0
10.0
19
5
10' 4 atillel at
800
goo
1000
1100
120?
X50
1300
1400
1500
160
1640
58?c
.
29.0
38.5
49.0
61.5
75.0
80.0
85.0
91.0
94.5
96.5
97.0
max 70?
?
11 50% ~~
Q9?C
?
max 105?
1050
-:i
min
f:
lay
-traeth
l l
d
min 100?
mex 175?
,
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y
eea
content ml/U.S.G. 4.36 91-98 nnx
Sulphur % 0.02 max 0.05
Steam pressure REID lb
;/
i
n.0 ml/i1SG max 4.6
max 0.5
0
e
sq
n. 7.3 max 7.0
C
l
max 't.0
o
our
Orange red 91-98-Blue
91-96-L1ue
751.11 2IM(N)
751.11 iJ(FM) 7-12/735.613
N(FM)
7-11/735.611 21M(N) 7-12/735.62
N(FM)
7-111/735.6i3 21M(N) 7-1"/735.63
N(FM)
7-111/735.62 21M(N) 7-12/735.64
N(FM)
7-11/'135.63 21M(N) 7-12/735.65
N(FM)
7-'1/735.6 21M(N) 7-12/735.6
N(FM)
7-111/735.65 21M(N) 7-;2/735.68
N(FM)
7-
11/735.66 21M(N) 7-12/711.116
N(FM)
1
7-11/735.68 21M(N) 7-12/711.115
N(FM)
7-II/711.116 21M(N) 2-5/735.613
N(M)
7-~11/71 I .115 2IM(N) 751.111
21M(N)MD)
12.735.611 N(FM)
7-
1
,
.111
75
M/D(N)(FM)
751.111
N(FM)(MD)
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