RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SOVIET OIL ADMINISTRATION (SMV)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003900730004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 23, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE MM. 28 DLC 49
COUNTRY Austria/tJS.S 1
SUBJECT
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Recent Develorpents in tho soviet Oil /~ f NO.. OF PAGES 3
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REPORT NO.
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Austrialis current gasoline shortage appears to be a direct reault'of a nsw
Soviet policy to ahi:p a major portion of S?LV gasoline to the ;,ate lite court.--
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the lV now o = ig large gasoline reserves in this storage era until
railroad tois cars; are available for shipment to the East? Ubanw lo, tie
SV has initiated steno measures-throughout its enterprises- it has not only
reduced but in soles castes has completely cut off monthly aso..ine ! allocations
Fir sxasple, U 3t A, Director of the Pura sing tiff ce,
nom receives only %0 liters of gasoline per month and h.xt=, purchas-
ing officia s.2l'JO liters per month. The S)LV has also discontinued granting a
10 to 15 percent discount on gasoline purchases made by some of i1a sube1,d~',.ary
fora La Dr i da
2. It is rumored ar one MY eineors employed in oil fields slog the A astro-
Czechoslovak border hat recent e]t 'oratory dril14rg projects a Oriss the ' .)rdo r
- Purchases.
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:i, During the past meek the 5MV has purchased large quantitica of hy8rocb)I.cric
acid from 1 bensee r Solvay marks, Solvay & Cie. and Donau C;:emie A o: ~ , and an
1 November )949 the N started despatchi railroad cars to !tngary to a --
pedite hydrochloric acid shipments from Budapest. It seems lihel* from
sudden emphasis on procurement of hydrochloric acid that the ; *-ay be t.r5,rirg
to build up reserve stocks.
4, The SMY Purchasing Office has made the following cash payments since 24 October
1949 for the purchiaes listed below:
Approved
This document Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDE .* IAL in accordance with the
letter of 13 Oc`^ber 1973 from the
Dlrec'or Cc ,' htvlligence to the
Arc:::`,',-- t'r 'r:Itod States.
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AL I1 T.~ZL1G C`~ AGZIGY
tte? Prc
mad AS- Mmulne's
"Semperit" Gummiwerks A.G.
Tires
93v0O000D
Siemene.Schuckert
2 welding unite
21,462, 00
1, annezrmann-Trau,tl AXII
i iserr, ttn~d Stahl A , G
s oi'lau 0hfnie A0GF.
1I51A
St Egydyer-6 sett- and Stahl
Industrie-Ges.JJ schift
rylinde r boxes
Carru/-at.ed sheet metal
L0r4OC
Outstanding debt 2,855c?i
Cable 14,467., 74
Cable and sire 140,896..-0Q
"Semperit" Oeat,arrefahisch-Awerikanischs G
.uaai.werke A.G. is now manui'acturing
16 x 25 x 4.,000; 16 it 2 x 4, 500; 16 x 25 x 5,000; and 16 x 25 x. 8,000 fan
beltsspeolfiaal3y for the MY. At the same time the
YV
S
is purehas n "5
g0m-
Is sutompbis tires;o which are ordered every month by, a Lt, Colo IDFNIS in
the Hotel Loperl.SL Thtse' "3eserit" products are delivered to the .;Y only
after receipt of advance payment in Ball to a "Semperit" account in the soviet,
Military i3anir,
.mente ziecei..vs the
6, During the past to* week S tV etnployous have noted a marked iricrw*se in the
volume of shipmetts traq the US~48, Among the most recent siirmes=ts received
at the 3MV Cent*al 4arehouee in Nousiedl a/d Zaya were.
9 carloads contiainjng 130,850 kilograms of 6 5/8 inch pipe
fro Tangarog
4 carloads corntcining 101,42: kilograms of pipe from Nikopol
2 carloads contoain$.ag 50, 20)0 kilograms of pipe from t,rieprovo ?*
4 carlolads cont*ining 50, 576 Irilograins of ].0 3/4 inch pipe f r=
Vitko rice, Caechoslovakia~
1 carload conta4ning 398 sacks of barite weighing kilogtauns from the t lbar Company, lco. total n a 0Uu
7o between 1 and 15 October 1949 the MY Central Aarehouse at Neusiedl a d 7.aya
received 20 carloads contaiping a total of 384,755 kilograms of the following
types of pipe:
U2920 kilograq-.s of 4 inch conduit pipe o
116,505 kilograms of 6 5/8 inch conduit pipe.
(toll)
104,830 ki1ograi i of 16 inch/ drilling pipe, (si. c )
(toll)
50,500 kilograms of 18 inch/drilling pipes.
;sic)
8e T;~,e following is a break 4 -wn of pipe shipments which the 33W received from the
$,vist Union during Augur and September 1949:
Ilumbmr of Pi e S ':ti: ns
707
6 5/8
436
10
/
203
291
3
4.
ENYIA
Cp1yF1D 60 (sic)
90 (sic)
Total
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3,533
Diameter o f P i hos 2 o 1 )
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90 1.-& 1' dismissal of non-Ca niet employoea continues unabated, Some members of the
A, rtri an Communist Party', Central Committee allege these dismiasa]M are being
carried out in retaliatjan for similar dtismxmisaals of Party msunbext recently lade
by non-USIA Austrian fir o Included among those recently dismiaesrtd was Chief
Engr, FEIX, an Austrian who has been supervising construction work in the Mateen
oil field area and who was responsible for starting construction work on the Nova
Schwvechat cracking oven.
10. 1-`N MKT,, w )v recently arrived from Lne Soviet Union to replace SIPIAGIN, SV
p .rcnaaing official, has been transferred to USIA.
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Thj i22lo ,satin -iw.'a ~ivvi] i:iJajji ,a 3Gj in
roported tl-At the ;:.ovietus are shipping aso Cae.chcsloval
Hungary, and r- IL-1 regarding a
recent Moscow to 8114 a e. iiuum of its Diesel nail and r eo-
lJUne to ; esviet and Hungarian troops in douthern Ii E
urga-rir..
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p
rtat Salbar" is time correct spell.ir g of the
raeMO Of the Lacca firms
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