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A. Mineral oil
Construction of the large hydrogenation
plants at Poelitz, Gelsenberg, Boehlen, Zeitz, Welheim will be
accelerated. With regard to Wesseling it will be investigated whether,
for security reasons, its construction is to be continued on another site, for
instance Lausitz, or whether it is to be exported in its entirety to Russia in
exchange for oil shipments. Owing to the steel situation, the Silesian
hydrogenation project will only be prepared for long term deliveries. All
Fischer plants that are almost constructed, especially Ruhland, will be
completed speedily.
The following cracking and "Topp"¹ plants will
be started immediately to process mineral oil and to adapt production to
possible additional imports of crude oil from the East and Southeast: "Topp"
plant Heide/Holstein and Ostmark; furthermore, extension of the lignite
low-temperature distillation plant at Espenhain. Of the whole Bruex project,
only the lignite distillation will be continued.
Construction of the
hydrogenation plants at Scholven-Gladbeck, Lausitz, the Bruex hydrogenation
works, also of most iso-octane plants, except those working on a basis of
hydrogenation waste gases, will be postponed. The Silesian iso-octane
plant will presumably be started with an iron allocation from the Luftwaffe.
The Falkenau Fischer-plant will also be postponed.
The middle
vertical column in the "mineral oil" graph shows the present mobilization
production assigned to the plants for aviation gasoline, motor gasoline, Diesel
fuel and fuel oil. The left-hand vertical column shows the proportions when
production of aviation gasoline is increased, the right-hand vertical column
when production of Diesel fuel is increased. Fuel oil production remains
practically the same in all cases.
The estimate of German mineral oil
production is shown in the diagram, bottom left.²
B. Buna
All construction projects for the production of buna and carbon black,
as well as for buna processing, will be accelerated. In view of the increased
load on the processing industries, owing to the change-over to tires and other
articles made with a high-percentage of buna or pure buna, all projects for the
processing industries must be continued.
The "Buna" diagram shows the
probable production plan on the basis of the expansion schedules which can be
surveyed at the present time. There is no graph for the projects in the field
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¹ "Toppen": a stage in
the process of oil refining.
² The diagram, attached to this
memorandum were not offered in evidence.
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