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...Answer Needed. The chief effect of Moscow's guided missive was one the Russians probably had not foreseen. The day after the note was made public, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer called in Soviet Ambassador Andrei Smirnov and spent two hours discussing it with him. What was all that talk of a demilitarized Germany and a German withdrawal from NATO? How, demanded Adenauer, did this square with suggestions to West Germany that, even without sacrificing her ties with the West, she might hope to enjoy "the spirit of Rapallo" (the Russo-Germany treaty...
...laughed Mr. Smirnov. "You are a Russian...
Quota System. The Russian oil fields were developed slowly, says Smirnov, because of lack of equipment: "Oil-drilling crews use a copy of an American rig, but it is in short supply . . . Drilling is done according to official rates. In the Second Baku fields, for example, the government ordered that each crew drill 2,100 ft. per month in the Pennsylvanian-type limestone. [Then] a well-trained crew of speedup specialists [was moved in and] with ideal working conditions and new equipment drilled 4,800 ft. in one month. Now every crew in the Second Baku must drill...
...East. In the Second Baku area, which Smirnov discovered, 20 refineries and 1,000 miles of pipeline are operating. One refinery, transported from Germany to Irkutsk, has a yearly capacity of 10.5 million gals. (250,000 bbls.) of high-quality aviation gasoline. In the Far East, says Smirnov, the most important oil area is on Sakhalin Island, which has proved reserves of about 350 million bbls., and may actually have ten times as much. Before World War II, Sakhalin's production was about 3,500,000 bbls. a year. Now, Smirnov estimates, "it could be as high...
...Smirnov estimates Russian oil production has reached 950,000 bbls. a day, plus 160,000 bbls. a day from its satellites. With total Communist production at 1,110,000 bbls. daily, it is still less than one-tenth of the 11.7 million bbls. which the free world produces every day, and far short of even the U.S. daily production, of 6,400,000 bbls...