Petroleum Information Bureau

The Petroleum Information Bureau, 4 Brook Street, Hanover Square, London, W.l, is designed to give information, mostly of a non-technical nature, to all interested in the petroleum industry to whom literature and visual aids are supplied free of charge. The Bureau is responsible for a small body of part-time lecturers scattered in a few districts of Britain who give talks to political and social organizations. Another organization. Petroleum Films Bureau, of the same address, is concerned with lending films on a... 

Books and oral teaching are not the only methods for conveying information that are now available, because films and film strips are prepared for teaching purposes. For example, a film by Porter is part of a series The Laws of Disorder and is concerned with entropy, which is introduced as a statistical concept. The tendency of matter to mix is discussed and the nature of spontaneous and chemical changes are considered. The laws of probability and the concept of heat as disordered motion are depicted. The Second Law of thermodynamics is introduced. The Petroleum Films Bureau has produced two films on energy in chemistry, illustrated by... 

Little information regarding the natural occurrence of dibenzothio-phene was available for the period up to 1952. Since then, the formidable task of separating and identifying sulfur compounds present in crude oil has represented part of the work of the Federal Bureau of Mines in cooperation with the American Petroleum Institute. ... 

Smith, H.K. Crude Oil Qualitative and Quantitative Aspects. The Petroleum World, Information Circular 8286 U.S. Dept, of tire Interior, Bureau of Mines (1966). 

While some of the completed research produced by the joint effort of the Project and the Bureau of Mines has appeared in the technical literature 21, 92, 93, 97, 104. 105,108,177, the bulk of the work of this Project, which is now being reported in progress report type publications 17S, 174,175,176), is still preliminary in nature and is not ready for general release. The information contained in these progress reports is not regarded as confidential and further advice regarding the availability of these reports and the information therein may be obtained from the Project or the Bureau of Mines. Recently an excellent summary of Project 48 s history, program, accomplishments, and conclusions drawn from their work has been presented at an American Petroleum Institute Session and is available as a preprint 177). 

Meeting, American Chemical Society, Atlantic City, N. J., April 14-18, 1947, pp. 61-70. Role of the Bureau of Mines in Dissemination of Information Relating to Petroleum Chemistry and Refining. ... 

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