ORGANIZATION OF PETROLEUM SHIPPING ON THE VOLGA-CASPIAN ROUTE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000200290009-8
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2013
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Organization of PetroleuraShipping on the
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2. I have a limited amount of additional information on petroleum unloading
facilities at Krasnovodsk. There is an oil harbor at Ufra which is a
few kilometers down the coast from Krasnovodek. There are two oil piers
at UTra which are capable of receiving small tankers although during World
Wer II the large tankers stopped in the roadsteads and were unloaded by
lighters. There is no crude nor masut shipped from Krasnovodek to Ourev
nor to MakhatilKala, although there were some shipments to Makhaoh Kola
before World Ar II. There are no shipments of finished products from
Krasnovodsk.
30 I do not know very much about off...s4ore drilling operations except that
they have not been meeting the expectations of the officials in charge of
the operations. The complaints of the chief of OlavNefteBbyt have primarily
been that the costs of the drilling Are prohibitive. Near Apsheronskiy
penninsula there are many off-shore wells, but as far as I know there are
no wells yielding any crude, There is a field of derricks about seven
kilometers square in the Bay of Illich. I do not believe that there are
any off...shore operations underway in the port of Makhach Kale. There were
a few pipelines running to the shore from some of the wells I saw and I
heard that these pipes were, used to carry the crude ashore. When the
pressure in the well was sufficient it WAR supposed to move the oil through
these pipelines, otherwise a barge would come along side and pump the oil
from the well. I have heard rumours that Zhiloy is to be a site for
drilling in the future.
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4. The mazut shipped from Baku to Makhach Kala was mainly heating Mazut, but
there was movement Of bunker fuel. I have no knowledge of any catalytic
cracking processes in use at Baku nor of the shipment of any catalysts.
my statement regarding an order prohibiting the transmission of information
revealing types) quantities, and destination of petroleum products can be
amplified. This order was placed in effect in 1948 and applied not only
to the fleets of tankers, but to all shore activities handling this type
of information. Al]. such information was to be sent in code and not to
be transmitted openly.
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