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INTRODUCTION

During 1968, the American Petroleum Institute's Committee for Air and Water Conservation conducted a survey to determine actual air and water conservation expenditures of the U.S. petroleum industry for the two years 1966 and 1967 and estimated expenditures for 1968. A report on the results of that survey was published in August 1968.

In 1970, a second survey was made covering actual expenditures for 1968 and 1969, including estimated figures for 1970. This report combines the results of both surveys. To permit direct comparison of the data from year to year, the questionnaire format was standardized.

Completed questionnaires were received from the corporate offices of 45 companies, representing 98.3 per cent of the industry's crude oil charge per calendar day (10.7 million barrels). The reported daily industry average was 10.9 million barrels.

Of the 45 respondents, 24 reported processing 50,000 barrels or less each calendar day; 13 operated refineries with the capacity to process 50,000 to 600,000 barrels of crude daily; and 8 processed between 600,000 and 1 million barrels of crude each day.

All the questionnaires received were treated as confidential, and the individual documents were returned to the senders after compilation of the data.