Abstract
The author attended the 6th World Petroleum Congress held in Frankfurt during June 19-26, 1963.This paper describes some interesting topics given at the Congress, e.g., (1) oil men have very optimistic opinion as to the future of world petroleum resources; (2) hydro-treating techniques in the petroleum industry are advancing towards the hydrodesulfurization of heavier fraction and the hydrocracking aiming at the manufacture of both petroleum products and petrochemical raw materials;and (3) deve-lopment stndies for the new and unusual uses of petroleum are being actively conducted, such as preparation of protein and vitamin from petroleum by use of micro-organisms.
