During  the  past  decade  Roumania  has  necessarily
catered  for  the  export  trade,  for  the  volume  of  crude
oil  produced  has  been  far  beyond  its  requirements.
The  great  petroleum  storage  port  of  Constantza  has
been  made  the  centre  for  this  export  business,  and  the
completion  of  a  trunk  pipe-line  from  the  Roumanian
refineries  to  the  port  was  one  of  the  most  recent  enter-
prises undertaken  by  the  Roumanian  Government  prior
to  the  war.  During  the  period  when  Roumania  was
under  German  control  its  terminal  point  was  so  changed


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that  the  line  ran  to  a  spot  which  rendered  the  transport
of  petroleum  to  Germany  a  matter  of  ease.  Now,
however,  Germany's  plans  have  been  frustrated,  and
Roumania's  great  pipe-line  well  have  its  terminal  point
at  Const  ant  za,  where  all  kinds  of  petroleum  products
can  be  pumped  direct  to  the  oil  tankers.
THE  DUTCH  INDIES. — The  growth  of  the  petroleum
industry  in  the  Dutch  Indies  has  been  surprisingly
rapid,  and  this  growth  synchronizes  with  the  advent
of  the  "  Shell  "  Company  into  the  Far  Eastern  fields.
