Word: palembang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handful of U.S. oilmen, in the path of the Japanese advance through Sumatra, fired the Standard-Vacuum Oil Co.'s* $30,000,000 Palembang plant, biggest U.S. refinery in the Far East. Dutch soldiers held off the enemy until the oilmen escaped. The new Japanese proprietors rebuilt the refinery, saw their work undone in two Allied air raids. Few U.S.-owned plants in the Orient had taken such a beating; few staged a faster recovery...
Last week, in the mud flats adjoining the Musi River, in a 50-mile enclave only recently cleared by the Dutch of Indonesian insurgents, Palembang started refining stored crude left by the Japanese. The wells, some dynamited and others partly .destroyed by fire, were just beginning to flow. But tough, ruddy-faced Harry A. Gibbon, who had led Standard's task force to Palembang, hopes to have them in full production soon. By summer, he expects" to have Palembang turning out its prewar 45,000 barrels...
...accordance with a traditional dedication, the workers buried the heads of eight carabaos and eight goats among the wells, lifted their cupped hands toward heaven and intoned the solemn Alam Kabeh-"Greeting to Allah from all the world." The echo will soon be heard on the mainland when Palembang's oil begins to flow through the petroleum-starved East...
...Dutch hold only three small areas: the cities of Surabaya, Semarang and a corridor two to six miles wide connecting and including Batavia and Bandung. Of Java's 51,000 square miles, the Dutch hold perhaps 380 square miles. In Sumatra the Dutch control three areas (at Palembang, Padang and Medan), less than 76 square miles...
...minutes before the Japs arrived, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) engineers had blown up its $30 million refinery at Palembang, Sumatra...