Word: abadan
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...Prepared quietly to evacuate all British nationals from Iran in case they were attacked. The British East Indies fleet was reported standing by; nearly 100 air transports were ready in the Suez Canal zone: they could carry British troops from Cyprus and Port Said to Abadan in five hours. But, said a Foreign Office spokesman: "There will be no order to fly those troops over unless and until disorder breaks...
This week twelve fully laden tankers lay in the hot, bustling Persian Gulf port of Abadan, unable to move because Teheran insisted that the tanker captains sign receipts saying they owed the "Iranian National Oil Co." for their cargoes. Ten more days of this and Abadan's storage facilities would overflow, the world's largest refinery would have to shut down...
...installations in token seizure, threatened to take them over in fact and throw the British out. Iranian politicians continued to make fiery statements blaming all of Iran's poverty on the British. The company's general manager made plans for the evacuation of British nationals from the Abadan area...
...Iranians, and most of these are administrative rather than technical men. The Iranians may, at the most, be able to keep the existing wells going, but they do not have the technical knowledge to open new ones; they would be able to maintain only patchwork efficiency at the Abadan refinery, which includes an intricate catalytic cracking plant set up for the British by U.S. engineers. Nor does Teheran have the worldwide sales organization and millions of tons of tankers required to market the product...
...barrels a day, a near record low. Other Middle East fields could increase their crude oil production, but not for a long time could the refining capacity of A.I.O.C. be replaced. Western Europe is building more refineries, but probably not enough to make up for the loss of Abadan. For basic needs, Australia, the Far East, South and East Africa have no alternative supply in sight...