§ Mr. Alisonasked the Minister of Power what scope he estimates to exist for saving imports if natural gas were wholly substituted for imported feed-stocks in the chemical industry.
§ Mr. MarshThe Chemical Industries Association has estimated that a total of 320 million cubic feet per day of natural gas could be used in 1970 for the manufacture of ammonia and alcohols. This would represent a saving of about 2.6 million tons a year of naphtha. It is not possible to say how much of this naphtha would otherwise have been imported as such, and how much supplied from United Kingdom refineries.