CHINA DLAMES RUSSIA FOR OIL PROUBLE from Oil and Gas Journal
“.eePoking is still reluctant to issue firm figuros on the country's industry, but it says 25 new wolls have boon drilled .4n tho Karamai field and several gas fields have been developed in. Szochwan Province. Prod= uction in 1963 was up “considerably ovor 1962, In 1960, the last year when an official figure was given, output was 110,000 barrels a day, including both crude and synthetic oil, Present output of crude oil is belioved to be about 120,000 barrels a days A communique issued by the 2nd National Peoples! Congress makes it clear that the Peking Communists consider the improved oil situation a victory over Russia, which in July, 1960, thoy say, "Took our economic problems as an oppo= rtunity to bring pressure to bear on use
"They suddenly and unilaterally decided on complete withdrawal of 1,390 experts who were in China to help with our work. They tore up 343 contracts for experts and they abolished 257 itoms for scientific and technical cooperation, Since then they have reduced in large numbers the supplies of complete sets of equipment and key sections of other equipment. This has caused our construction to suffer large losses, thereby upsetting our original plan for the development of our economy and greatly aggravating our difficulties.”
"The Soviet Union cut exports of oil products to China by 1,856,400 méetric tons, about 37,12 barrels a day, in 1962, This was dow from 2,928,200 tons in 1961, and was tho lowest level since 1957. USM shipments of oil-field equipment plunged to $2,000 in 1962, compared with $6,215,000 in 1960, before the ideological feud got personal,"