OIL & GAS
To 18 West Coast oil importers last week went a request from Washington to cut their imports of crude oil during the first half of 1958 from a recent rate of 300,000 bbl. a day to 220,000. The import curb was no surprise, since Washington last July forced oil companies east of the Rockies "voluntarily" to reduce crude oil imports to protect the market for politically powerful U.S. independent oil producers. Nevertheless, the latest pronouncement drew sharp and angry protests from such companies as the Richfield Oil Corp., which was ordered to import no more than 9,100 bbl. daily...
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