Piped Gasoline

Last week Phillips Petroleum Co. ordered from Republic Steel Corp. 100,000,000 lb. of steel pipe for an 800-mi. pipe line extending from Borger, Tex., to Kansas City and St. Louis. Importance of this line lay not so much in its length as in its function as a carrier of gasoline, not of crude oil. Petroleum companies have hitherto piped crude oil to refineries, but have shipped gasoline almost exclusively by rail and tanker. Other oil companies planning gasoline pipe lines include Barnsdall Corp., which will run a gasoline line from its Muskogee, Okla., refinery to Milwaukee, and Sun Oil Co. which will pipe gasoline westward from its Philadelphia refinery through Pittsburgh and to some point on the Great Lakes, probably Toledo. Piped gasoline has thus far been supplementary to rail and tanker rather than a substitute for them, but the gasoline pipe line has well passed the experimental stage and is beginning to rank as a major petroleum development.

Meanwhile natural gas companies, continuing their plans for long-distance natural gas transportation, last week placed with various steel companies orders for more than 300,000 tons of steel. To the steel industry, the pipe line orders have been a bright spot in a dull spring.

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