PREWAR PATTERN OF USSR PETROLEUM CONSUMPTION

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1936 - 1947
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Econcir;c - Petroleum consumption
HOW
PUBLISHED Periodicals; books
WHERE
PUBLISHED Germany; Japan; USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 1936 - 3947
LANGUAGE German; Japanese; Russian
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Books and. periodicals as indicated.
PREWAR PATTERN OF ~SSR PETROLEUM CONSUMPTION
This report ccnsists of several tables and related informa-
tion on prewar USSR petroleum consumption. Most of the tables
have been taken from captured German and Japaneseentsfly
which used mainly original Soviet so eceome They refer
fl
r ch
indication the
give
to the years 1936 - 1938, and may
requirement pattern of petroleum in the USSR.
Nucdu, rs in parentheses refer to appended sources.
Crude oil processed
Gasoline and ligroine
Kerosene
Gas and diesel oils
Fuel Oil
Lubricating Oil
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AIR
coffaRTA
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18,511
28,410
29,000
2,642
5,011
5,774
3,867
6,060
6,570
6
1,031
2,107
2,17
504
6
9,8o4
10,100
,
1,998
,120
2,120
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Petroleum Consumption in 1938 (1)
(million tons)
doftPetroleum
Quantity Consumed Percent
(million tons)
Tractors
Automobiles agriculture
Including agr
Industry and private hcuseholds
Exports
Miscellaneous (Armed Forces)
Locomotives
Agriculture
Industry, shipping, own consump-
tion,.miscellanous (Armed
Forces)
Lubricating Oils
Total
Total crude oil processed
storage and transport losses
5.7
2.9
o.6
1.3
0.4
1.7
1.9
2.0
19
10
2
4
1
6
10.4 35
28.4
1.7
Consumption of Petroleum by Industries (2)
(1,000 metric tons)
1934
1935
Es
1936
timate)
1937
(Planned)
People's Commissariat of Trans-
2,770
2,530
2,550
1,900
portation
People's Commissariat of Water
953
1,185
1,290
1,385
Transportation
People's Commissariat of Heavy
3,762
4,200
4,700
4,750
Industry
People's Commissariat of Light
115
92
107
120
Industry
People's Commissariat of Food
232
310
415
459
Industry
People's Commissariat of Timber
27
13
20
25
Industry
Committee of Agricultural
procurement, Council of
161
110
115
119
People's Commissars
736
531
527
482
RSFSR, Kazakh SSR, Kirgiz SSR
154
165
180
200
Ukrainian SSR
74
203
206
227
Caucasus republics
3,289
2,211
1,790
1,856
44
consumers
th
0
-3
400
2
4,
a
er
O
Consumed by petroleum industry
2,700
3,05
,
14,973
15,300
15,965
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According to a survey by F R. Garfias, military consumption amounted
to 446,860 tons in 1937 and is presumably included in "other consumers."
Military consumption is broken down as follows (in metric tons):
Army 47,360
Navy 214,640
Air Force i84,860
Total 446,860
Consumption of Petroleum Products (2)
(1,000 metric tons)
1936
1937
1935
l
Total Agr o
nly
Tctal
Agr Only
Total
y
Agr On
Gasoline
1,579
566
400
477
2,362
1,020
760
880
3,500 1,0
1,756 1,3
50
69
6
Ligroin
8
0
700
4
3,220
5,585 3,5
2
Kerosene
4x1` 3
9
2,
2,
,
8
124 -
5
-
other products
8,332
--
7,21
,
Total
14,600
3,767
15,300
4,860
15,965 5,9
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Of which consumed
by petroleum in- 400 4,442
dustry only 3,050 3,
The 760,000 tons of gasoline used in agriculture in 1936 include 60,000
tons for tractors, 150,000 tons for combines, and 550,000 tons for automo-
biles, including sovkhoz automobiles.
The 80-percent increase in the consumption of ligroine in 1936 over
1935 was caused by the increased production of Stalinets tractors by the
Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. Ligroine is also used to a larger extent as
fuel in lumber-hauling operations.
As for kerosene, there is much more fractionization when it is refined
than with American kerosene, and thus, a considerably large number of trac-
tors in the USSR use kerosene as fuel.
According to a survey by F. R. Garfias, R. V. Whetsel, and I. W. Ristori
(published in Petroleum Press Deruici), petroleum consumption in the USSR
bydtherfactcy of
is greater than the ount survey) can statistics. The
6
t million tons in 1 937
that the he 6 million tons were reserved for military use and were not included
in the above table.
Consumption by User and Region (3) ing oil is The largest portion of 314, itserequirementsaamounteditot64 percent ofcon-
sumed by agriculture. In 193 8
total consumption. In 1935, its share was 62 percent, and in 1936, 58
The relative consumption of agriculture thus shows a tendency to
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decrease, a fact which may be attributed to the progressmeanization,
as well as to the increase in air traffic, In 1936, agriculture
for
70% of all illuminating oil consumed,
80% of the ligroine, and
30% of the over-all gasoline consumtion (all estimates),
Of the remaining 74 of the gasoline
35% (approx) was reo,iired by automotive traffic and
35% (approx) by the motorized army units, the Air Force and the
civilian air fleet.
According to statistics, the regional distribution of fuel consumption
for 1936 was as follows:
20% by Central Industrial Region,
19% by the Ukraine and the Crimea,
15% by the Caucasus,
13.2% by the Ural region,
12% by Siberia and the Far East, and
11.5% by the Volga region.
The requirements of Siberia, the Far East, and the Urals are on the
increase, whereas the shares of the Central Industrial Region, the Ukraine,
and the Volga region are showing a decreasing trend.(3)
Consumption by Heavy Industry Enterprises (4)
Enterprises of the Commissariat of Heavy Indus cosumetonsd
tons of fuel oil during the first quarter 1936,
the second quarter of that year. The same enterprises further consumed, tons
during the second quarter 1936, 168,000 tons of crude oil and 33,300 of oils and petroleum for heating purposes (the crude oil was to have been
processed).
Consumption of Petroleum Fuels
in Industrial Enterprises of the Baltic States (5)
(tons)
Estonia,
1936
Latvia, ?it
1939
huania,
1939
381.0
256.9
53.0
Mining
129.0
2
562.8
Stones and earths
869.0
1,021.1 2
26.0
Metal
71.0
410.2
64.0
Chemical
9.0
43.3 2
20.0
Leather
107.0
514.5 4
15.0
Textile
187.0
271.4
96.0
Lumber
12.0
71.7
21.9
Paper
7.0
70.1
5.0
Printing and related industries
822.0
2,846.3 2,1
35.0
Food and gustatory
2.0
24.4
22.0
Clothing
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Estonia,
1936
Latvia,
1939
Lithuania,
5.0
Hardware
Electricity and gas supply
173.0
Water, electricity and gas
1,077.8
2,354.0
supply
1,805.8
--
Construction
7.0
--
Cleaning
2,774.0
8,983-3
5,849.0
5,802.0 (1938
)
5,859.0 (1937
)
planned Petroleum Consumption in Moscow City and Oblast (6)
planned increase in consumption of petroleum products for 1950, as com-
pared with 1940, for Moscow City and Moscow Oblast is as follows;
Percent
Asphalt
317.4
6
7
2
Automobile gasoline
.
(
216.7
Kerosene
107.2
Mazut, diesel, and motor fuel
Oils and other petroleum products
331.3
Consumption of all petroleum products 168.8
products
followsProducts planned for
Plan is as petroleum
General nat~Year consumption
the 5 years of the Fourth Five -Year
1946 100
1947 103.1
1948 116.4
1949 131.7
1950 168.8
SOURCES
1. Die Wehrwirtschaft der U.d.S.S.R. (The War Economy of the USSR), as of
k -do der hrmacht (High Command
omma
March 1941, published by t
f the Armed Forces), 1941
o
Vol III
V
l II
9
2.
o
,
Survey of the Economic Strength of the USSR,
7
"Die Erdoelindustris der U.d.S.S.R." (The Petroleum IndustryrofcthetUSSR),
in Die Chemische Industrie, a pert
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