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OIL DISTRICTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 
COMPOSITION. 
The following table gives the ultimate chemical composition of 
two California oils and, for comparison, of oils from Pennsylvania, 
Ohio, West Virginia, and Texas: 
Ultimate composition of various crude oils. 
Locality. 
Specific 
gravity. 
Nearest 
degree, 
Baume. 
Oil Creek, Pa.°. 
0.730 
02 
Ohio b . 
West Virginia 0 . 
.840 
36 
Beaumont, Tex .b . 
California °. 
California ° c... 
.912 
23.5 
• 
C. 
H. 
O. 
N. 
S. 
By whom 
analyzed. 
82.0 
14.8 
3.2 
Deville. 
85.0 
13.8 
0 
60 
0." 60 
84.3 
14.1 
1.6 
Do. 
85. 03 
12. 30 
0! 92 
1.75 
86. 934 
11.817 
1. 1095 
Peckham. 
84.0 
12.7 
1.2 
1.7 
0.4 
Salathe. 
a Watts, W. L., Bull. California State Mining Bureau, No. 19, 1900, p. 207. 
b Jour. Soc. Chem. Ind., vol. 20, pp. 161 et seq. 
c Mixture of Ventura County oils. 
FUEL AND GAS MAKING. 
Oil is now largely used as a fuel in California in many places where 
coal was formerly employed, and is, in a measure, supplanting that 
commodity. The railroads and those electric lines not using power 
developed by water use oil almost entirely for fuel purposes. T he 
gas companies also use it for the manufacture of gas, smelters for the 
smelting of ores, foundries for the heating and melting of’metals, and 
other manufactories for nearly every purpose requiring the generation 
of heat. 
Following is an analysis of a typical gas-producing oil from the 
Murphy Oil Company’s wells, Whittier district, and an analysis of 
the gas derived from it: ° 
Results of crude oil test, Murphy Oil Company. 
Gravity at 60° F.°B.. 20. 5 
Moisture and nonpetroleum substances &.None. 
Flash points 
Sulphur.per cent.. 0. 05 
Residue (dry lampblack).do.01 
Analysis of the gas produced from Murphy Oil Company's crude oil. 
[Based on the Lowe process—18-candlepower gas; 1,800 B. T. U.] 
Carbonic acid (C0 2 ). None. 
Illuminants. 11.2 
Oxygen (O). .4 
Carbonic oxide (CO). 3.4 
Hydrogen (H). 40 
Marsh gas (CH 4 ) 
Nitrogen (N).... 
41. 8 
2 . 8 
99. G 
This gas gave over 600 British thermal units per cubic foot. It 
took 7.75 gallons of crude oil to produce 1,000 cubic feet of gas. 
a Furnished by Mr. E. A. Bacon, of the Murphy Oil Company, Whittier. 
b Oil stored in tank eight months. Flash point in oil coming directly from well, in five tests, 130° 
88°, 90°, 92°, 94°. 
