Abstract
For the reasons of the limited production of crude oil, the employment of labourer, and the saving of foreign currency, the petroleum policy in Japan must be to adopt the direction of“crudes import and its domestic refining”.The import of crudes, which was the basis of this policy, has been almost stabilized at present by the cooperation of domestic refinng companies with foreign capitals. Then, if the considerable change in the world political relationships does not happen, the crudes import in future will progress satisfactorily, because the relation of demand and supply of petroleums in the world is now balanced.Although the oil tanker problems for the crudes import should be noticed, the troubles with them may be about dissolved. However, the accumulation of the imported crudes to prepare against the emergency besides the normal importation must be performed as soon as possible.In the Japanese: refining industries at the present time;it is necessary to improve the, refining technics as well as to lower the refining cost by introducing the modern technics and apparatus from the foreign countries, and the expansion of refining capacity is also one of the important problems.Lastly, it is desired eagerly to abrogate the petroleum control, of the government from the several view-points.
