also confident of the future. The company's annual nickel production in Canada will increase by some 100 million to 150 million pounds a year by 1970. Last year Canada produced 468 million pounds of the 660 million pounds of nickel produced in the Free World, according to the U.S. Bureau of Mines. Changes in nickel technology are also doing a great deal to help the nickel supply-demand situation. For example, last year, 32% of Free World nickel was supplied as ferronickel or oxide, according to Mr. Dahl. Prior to 1945, almost all nickel was used as refined metal.
Pollution control agencies clamp down
Chevron Research reorganizes for higher return The organization chart of Chevron Research Co., the research arm of Standard Oil of California, is undergoing a major revamping. The changes, still under way, include appointment of a new president and creation of several vice presidential slots. Also new is the establishment of a corporate vice president for research. The aim is to improve financial return from the sizable sum Standard spends annually on research. Engineer Eneas D. Kane steps up to the title of president of Chevron Research. He brings to the job 15 years of experience gained with the company. Under the new plan, nine vice presidents will report to Dr. Kane. Each heads a department, the number of which has been upped from the six which existed in the earlier structure. The nine departments cover the entire range of SoCal's petrochemical and oil endeavors—lubricants, fuels and asphalts, chemicals, process research, process engineering, oil field research, patents and licensing, special projects, and research services. The latter two departments are new at Chevron Research. The regrouping also involves the move of Chevron Research headquarters from San Francisco to the Richmond, Calif., laboratory complex across the bay. The company's entire staff is now located there except for the patent and licensing department and the oil field research vice president, which remain in San Francisco. "With everyone housed under one roof, we should be able to streamline and upgrade the communication procedure among all levels of the laboratory's personnel," Dr. Kane observes. Creation of a vice president for research at the corporate level also reflects the aim toward better communications. A. H. Batchelder, veteran of
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37 years with SoCal, moves into the job after four years as president of Chevron Research. He will be the direct link between the research laboratories and the corporate management. He'll also be alert to new areas where he believes SoCal should apply some research effort. With a more horizontal structure, each department becomes more specialized and self-contained than it was before, Dr. Kane notes. "This should speed up the process of putting new technology to profitable use," he says. He declines to pinpoint the areas in which he expects his company to make significant strides. "You may be sure, though, that we intend to come up with some interesting products, processes, and innovations in our corporate operations," he declares.
Pollution control agencies are clamping down on industries in the nation's two largest and most polluted cities. Last week, the New York State Air Pollution Control Board approved the proposed limits on the sulfur content of fuel oils burned in the New York City area. Oil companies, however, have pleaded for deadline extensions on rulings to supply fuels with sulfur content reduced from about 3 to 1%. And after federal water pollution control hearings in Chicago late last month, Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall has refused deadline extensions to steel producers for controlling effluent into Lake Michigan. The New York State Air Pollution Control Board's ruling, part 200, applies to electric power stations, industrial plants, apartment houses, and other users, in New York City and surrounding counties. By Oct. 1, 1968, existing power stations in Manhattan, Kings, and Bronx must burn fuel containing no more than 1.0% sulfur by weight. By Oct. 1, 1969, industries, residences, hospitals, and schools must comply with even lower limits. Their fuels must contain no more than 0.2 pound of sulfur per million B.t.u. gross heat content. This converts to 0.36% sulfur by weight in coal and 0.26% sulfur by weight in fuel oil. Anthracite coal installations are exempt from the rule because they add little to the total pollution problem. Already last week, Humble Oil & Refining Co., chief affiliate of Standard Oil Co., (N.J.), began supplying 1.0% sulfur fuel to Consolidated Edison Co. in Manhattan and to Public Service Electric and Gas Co.'s generating station in Linden, N.J. Humble is blending the very low sulfur fuel oils from African sources with higher sulfur fuels to the 1.0% level at its facilities in Bayonne, N.J. In Chicago, Mayor Richard J. Daley opposed the two-year deadline extension which the steel industry requested to install water pollution control equipment. At the progress meeting of the federal interstate hearing on the southern end of Lake Michigan last month, Mayor Daley urged that industries meet the Dec. 31, 1968, deadline. Supporting Mayor Daley's action, Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall wired him after the progress meeting: "I agree with you that there should be no slowdown in efforts to save Lake Michigan. In light of the record of last week's Chicago water pollution control enforcement meeting, I contemplate no extension of the 1968 federal enforcement deadline." OCT. 9, 1967 C&EN
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