Rhodesian Pipeline

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31003, 8 March 1966, Page 17

Rhodesian Pipeline

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) SALISBURY, March 7. A two-mile pipeline has been constructed at Beira, Mozambique, to by-pass storage tanks owned by British and American companies observing Britain’s oil embargo against Rhodesia.

The pipeline runs from No. i 8 wharf to a pumping station i on the key £4 million 189-mile ; pipeline running to Rhodesia’s only oil refinery at Feruka. ; It is at No. 8 wharf that i arrangements have been made 1

to berth a tanker, now believed to be heading for Beira, with the first cargo of oil for Rhodesia since Britain imposed its embargo on December 17. No crude oil has flowed along the pipeline to Feruka since oil stocks in Beira dried up on December 31. During the last three weeks. Rhodesia’s oil position has eased as a result of the increasing flow of secret consignments from South Africa. The whereabouts of the

embargo-breaking tanker remains a mystery. It had not arrived last night. Rhodesian white engineers and local workers are pressing ahead with the construction of three 6000-ton oil

storage tanks near the dock area. Completion is not expected for several weeks. The tanks are not needed immediately because oil could now be pumped straight from tankers at the wharf, via the new two-mile pipeline to the pumping station, and on to Feruka.