1064 MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1941
    REFINED PRODUCTS

 Increase in defense activities during 1941 expanded the requirements from
the oil industry so greatly as to tax its refining capacity. In addition
to bringing record demands for all products, shifts in importance, although
not in quantity, developed, which directed primary interest of the country
to the production of aviation gasoline and synthetic rubber.
 The future promises an even greater upset in the balance of the products
of crude oil. Difficulty in getting tires, along with cessation in the production
of new cars, is destined to reduce gasoline consumption to an extent that
cannot yet b~oreseen. ~The demand for residual fuel oil for needed war production,
however, is increasing. Hence the industry will be presented with the necessity
of curtailing the proportion of gasoline produced and at the same time raising
the proportion of fuel-oil output in the face of a probability of decreased
imports of heavy foreign crude. Greater reforming of gasoline seems necessary
to supply at least part of those octane elements lost in the butane, the
high octane straight-run naphtha, and the tetraethyl lead being diverted
for aviation gasoline. The greater losses in reforming will reduce the yield
of gasoline but add to its quality and at the same time supply additional
gases for the production of aviation fuel.

Comparative analyses of statistics for the major refined products in the
United States,
1937—41
[Thousands of barrels, except as otherwise Indicated]
See footnotes at end of table.























1937
1938
1939
1940
1941 1
Motor fuel:
 Production 571, 727 569, 162 611,043 616,695 690,958
 Imports 144 79 47 97 2 596
 Exports 38,306 50,109 44,638 25,377 ~l6, 005
 Stocks, end of period 74,650 70,779 81, 722 83,647 90,688
 Domestic demand.... 519,352 523,003 555,509 589,490 (3)

Kerosine:
Production
Imports
Exports
Stocks, end of period
Domestic demand

Distillate fuel oil:
Production
Transfers 4
Imports
Exports

Stocks, end of period

Domestic demand

Residual fuel oil:
Production
Transfers4_____________________________
Imports
Exports

Stocks, end of period
Domestic demand~

Lubricating nil:
Production
Imports
Exports
Stocks, end of period
Domestic demand
65,308

8,836
7,083
54,972
64,580
 
7,504
7,799
56,360
68,521

8,241
7,576
60,503
73, 882
204
3,374
9,512
68,776
72,586
' 58
2 1,626
9,599
(3)
146, 706
(3)
17
30, 129

22,566
116,841
151, 774
623
 
29,641

{ , ~'  ~

117,449
161, 746
2, 741

32,020

} 33,718 6134,973
183,304
2,576
3,333
19, 140

42,940
160,851
189, 177
2,513
' 3,707 2 11,400

49,926
(3)
312,064
17,423
22, 114
15, 304
81,507
325, 514
294,890
10,037
21,065
17,920

{~ ~ ~ 291,833
305,944
9, 668
15, 680
17, 485

} 92,290 6 323,488
316,221

7, 699

29, 366

16, 109

89,304

340, 163
342,367

12,969

2 23,582

2 10, 796

83, 195

(3)
35, 321

7

10,975

7,512

23,323
30, 826

7

9,417

7,695

21, 233
35, 036
5
11, 881
7,142
23, 713
36, 765
11
10, 461
8,767
24.690
39, 53'~
(2)
2 6,920
8,127
(3)