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Oil CEO on January 17, 2006 - 2:00am

How much oil was that plant producing in 1942?

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Jack Greene on January 17, 2006 - 6:17am

I do not know and checked around for Italy. Pirelli had the plant.

Germany started in 1938 to push sythetic fuel production. In 1939 it produced 2.2 metric tons.
1940 - 3.3
1941 - 4.1
1942 - 4.9
1943 - 5.7 and than a decline after that.

Remember this was a Germany that used 600,000 horses for its army when it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.

Standard Oil helped get this working back in 1938 with German industry.

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Jack Greene on January 17, 2006 - 7:41pm

Opps, the German figures are correct but the Italian synthetic plant was for rubber and for Pirelli to build it makes good sense.

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Oil CEO on January 18, 2006 - 6:10am

roger that

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