SOVIET PETROLEUM STOCKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003300260005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 26, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 16, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELL1 NOE AGENCY
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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT soviet Petroleum Stooks
PLACE
ACCMRED
DATE OF Ot\IF
DATE DISTR,
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16 September 19)49
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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1. The total Soviet crude oil and derivative stockpiles amounted to
a maximum of 22 million tons at the bor;inning of the ware in
addition av liable Indications rege;?d'ent! 8 to 9 million tons
of crude oil stockss,it can only be eceeputed that the crude
oil production from 1941 to 1i:A5 was 7 to 12 million tons less
than the existing processine capacity of the refineries in these
yeqrs. This le deto the estimate o 14 to 15 million tons of
crude oil processin7 reserves at the beFinning of the wae? and of
7 to eJ million tons of derivative reserves,
2. The fipe.M9 of 7.5 mi115on tone of crude oil (with no lndicatien of
whether only crude oil stocks er specif9.cation of eventual
refined products) in military ,:epots at the beeinnine: if the wer
ia given only as a very rough estimate.
3. English translation of the German text of the seconte paragraph
of chapter ?1,9 on paze 77 of the "1946 to 1950 Five Year Plan
of the SU' (edited in 1947 by the Slai Publishing House in
BERLIW)g
l'Geological research has to be developed nd new oil fields
have to be ppepared for utilization in order
(1) to secure the provided increase of oil production
and
(2) to mr,ke it possihic that indeteerial reserves located
by research up to 1950 will be collacted rangesammele;
for at least two to three years in advanee. Exper1e,.
mental drillings have to be intensified and their
. share in the total drilling operations has to be in-
creased.'
b, On the basis of this.erman text, It was assumed that stock'
piling of crude oil praceessing reserves for the refineries was
planned for two to three years. Eewever, an investigatiee of
the hussian ori7inel tent showed that nothing is planned ':eee.
an intensification of geological research and crude ei.1
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to insure that, until 150, eg.ploitable oil fields will actually
be available for the total oil andustu of the SU for the poriod
of two to three years.
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