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THE CUBA REVIEW 



Oil Tank of Sinclair Oil Company, Guines, Cuba. 



Oil Company are also erecting many stor- 

 age tanks throughout the Island. 



These oil storage tanks are arranged in 

 series, all connected with piping, and one 

 Itumping apparatus is sufficient for all oil 

 ranks possessed hy any one central. Tliis 

 arrangement effects a great saving in 

 haiMlling as against tlie old metliod of 

 handling coal. 



SINCLAIR OIL COMPANY DEVELOPMENT 

 IN CUBA 



The Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corpor- 

 ation expects to make delivery in Cuha 

 during the present y<>ar of approximately 

 f'.,<KN>.<MXt harrels of petroleum oil. The 

 Island Repuhlic is learning to depend on 

 the liquid fuel and the Sinclair Company 

 is doing by far the largest of the fuel 

 petroleum business in the Island. 



All of the railroads of Cuba have con- 

 tracted with the Sinclair Company for 

 their supply of oil for various needs. The 

 work of converting the locomotives of 



the IInit(Ml Railw'ays and the Cuba Rail- 

 road is now luider way, and the building 

 of storage facilities for the fuel oil is 

 liraclically complete at most points. All 

 this work has biHJU under the entire super- 

 vision of the Sinclair Company, who has 

 engaged expert engineering service to has- 

 ten and finish the work of construction. 



Many of the larger indu.strial plants of 

 (iiha, such as sugar centrals, breweries. 

 li^liling plants, etc., have been converted 

 I.. I lie list' of i>etroleum fuel and many 

 others are making preparations for llie 

 change. 



The stations of the Sinclair Company 

 sunonnd the Island. Deliveries in ves- 

 sels belonging to the Company are made 

 at the large terminals of Havana, Mat- 

 iiM/.as, Xuevitas, Manati. Mariel, Ranes, 

 Treston. Roqueron, Relis and Cienfuegos. 

 Two additional terminals are now in 

 course of ccmstruction at Antilla and 

 Santiago. Many new tank steamers have 

 Ijceii sjiecially constructed for delivering 

 the oil to all ports in Cuba. From th«' 

 principal stations along the coast deliv- 

 eries are made to the interior by railroad 

 and truck. 



This Company is operating more than 

 four hundred tank cars on the railway 

 lines of Cuba at the present time. 



Work will be undertaken soon on llie 

 construction of an oil refinery for the Sin- 

 clair Company at Havana, for the refining 

 nf various petroleum products for local 

 cons\nniifion. The location of this refinery 

 is projiosed for the immediate vicinity of 

 their terminal at Havana. When this re- 

 finery is in operation, the warehouse 

 facilities at Havana will be used princi- 

 pally for handling the refined product. 

 Additional facilities for distributing the 

 refined products will be established in all 

 parts of the Island. 



The gain to the Island of Cuba through 

 the use of oil as fuel cannot be estimated, 

 and there is no doubt that it has had a 

 very marked effect on the general pros- 

 perity of the country in its economy and 

 saving of manual labor, particularly dur- 

 ing these times of extreme labor shortage. 

 Railroad methods are being revolutionized 

 daily and all industrial activities have 

 been stimulated as never before. 



