Oil pipeline from PortlandéMaine, tbcilllontreal runs‘ app oxinnt l 60 000 a day to service four leading Canadian companies. The ‘pipeliil: ‘xexteiids fgi-Inggtsi miles and is four to five feet underground. Ilere, manifold control on £10m

Fractionation, section columns-cracking plants-where crude oil at a certain temperature is put under a controlled pressure until it actually cracks the molecules which permit the separating of lubrication oils from the fuel oils.

Gasoline for the fighting front is loaded at Montreal aboard an ocean-going tanker. R.C.N.V.R. gun crew practise on the deck. Canada produces only 15 Percent 9H1" Own petroleum requirements. Over 60 per cent is deliyered BM wean tanker-

'.1‘his onion-shaped tank at the Imperial Oil's Montreal East plant part oi‘ the company's own program of gasoline conservation. is called a llortonspheroitl. Tank is built in this shape to The small top permits the application of pressure. A worl r goes guarantee continued pressure on gas to prevent loss by evaporation, up stai s to tap off a sample of gas for laboratory tests.

Acid-reclaiming plant, where pent acid is mixed with iviitei‘ to s mite oil. ion water is removed

Infra-red spectrophotometer, a Shell Oil device, tests feed stocks for alkylation plant and proofs samples. Chief chemist E. G. Wilkinson operates it.

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Loading railway tank cars at Imperial Oil yards in Montreal East. Between forty and fifty cars are loaded daily, shipped to Eastern Canada points.

Hortonspheres at Shell Oil plant are slightly different from ImperiaPs. These

contain normal butene and butane butylene used in making IOO-octane gasoline for aviation. Ordinary car gas was reduced from 8O to 74-76 octane as a war measure.

Mr. John Public fills up at. his local service station. lle is the man who must cooperate to conserve fuel, liolp .ii:ida’s war effort in this vital field. l ion

him depends the decision as to whether coupon values will he reduced this year. National Film Board Photos hi; Ronny JGQILCQ).

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