Abstract
MR. VICTOR FORBIN'S recent article on the French petroleum industry (La Nature, No. 2952, 385-396, May 1, 1935) is in effect an unanswerable vindication of France's claim to recognition as a petroleum power in the world to-day. Admittedly, at the beginning of this century and during the great development of the world petroleum industry, actuated by invention and universal adoption of the internal combustion engine, France had little right to recognition, for at this time tariff protection had been withdrawn and she was only able to supply 10 per cent of her domestic requirements of petroleum and products. This position was more or less maintained until 1925, when FOffice National des Combustibles Liquides was founded to give expression to the French desire “de devenir une puissance petroliere”. Close co-operation between this body and the Government led to drastic reorganisation of the entire industry and finally, in 1928, to the passing of a law which is now regarded as the charter of the French petroleum industry.
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Petroleum Industry of France. Nature 136, 40 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136040a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136040a0