LUBRICANT SITUATION IN THE RUSSIAN ZONE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001600940010-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 21, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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The prig cipa1. regions for the ira dequate production were the fai .u,.Ur,~:-
of delivv-,ry of sufficient crude ol] from Austr ja and disruption of
process" g by late deliveries of materials. Of the 30,000 tons of
crude of . which were called for under Order No, 102, in the first
quarter bf 1948, only 16,700 tons were actually received.
Production and supply of lubricants,for the remainder of 194.8 are not
expected Lo reach.the quarter quotas? In April, for example, a
delivery of only 3,000 tons from Austria was in prospect Instead
of the lJ 000 tons needed, and consequently crude oil processing
by, the nipn firms at Lftzkendorf and Acketha.,1 was as unfavorable
as in Mapch. The total balance of production was somew.o.t impra':red
by the thking up of lubricating oil pr.oduction.,at Triglitz in Ap:~aii
and by t~i