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ecj Mr. B. B. Turner Dr. G. F. Kirby ETHYL CORPORATION lOO PARK AVENUE BUILDING AT 4 1 s t STREET NEWYORK 17. N,,Y. May 27, i960 Dr. Robert A. Kehoe College of Medicine, , , Kettering laboratory, of Applied Physiology Eden Avenue Cincinnati 19 Ohio Dear Dr. Kehoe: -: Following a discussion with Mr. Turner and Dr. Kirby today, Mr. Turner asked me to outline for your guidance information regarding . European companies known to be interested in the,possibility of producing TEL. We assume that you are already familiar with present producers, so they will be omitted in this letter. ::: \ , Several chemical coinjianies have from time to time suggested that they would'welcome an opportunity to; consider a joint venture with / Ethyl in this:area. It is not likely that your contacts will lead to them, so I will merely list them by countries: : `: . , . ' France - Pechiney, Ugine , . Italy - Edison , ** ' ' ,. Germany - Degussa, Badische Aniline, Hoechst, Metallgesellschaft, Bergkamen (Schering) * - Holland - iStaatsmejnen (chemical subsidiary) 1,, t England - Imperial Chemical. If you need further' information regarding-these, please let me know. It is however quite likely that your inquiries will touch upon certain petroleum companies which have petrochemical subsidiaries and dia'vevrecently expressed a lively interest in TEL. These are: In Germany, the Aral Group, generally known as B. V. Aral, which is short-hand for Benzol Verband Aral. This comprises a group of 5 German petroleum companies: . f\B 0002632 - 2- Deutsch Erdl Gelsenberg Benzin Mobil Oil Wintershall . . . .. Scholven Chemie (subsidiary of Hibernia . (owned by government These companies control about 30$ of gasoline marketed in Germany, and through Gelsenberg Benzin they have approached us about TEL. We are about to tell them that if we do anything in Germany it will probably take direc tion of independent production of TML, not TEL. ;. ` ' In Italy a company known as A M C has inquired about availabili ty of know-how or a joint venture, and we have told them we are not in a position to make a deal. ABIC is the petrochemical subsidiary of EHI, the government owned petroleum company of Italy. . .. . . : You are of course familiar with the ownership of Associated, but to complete the picture^this appears in Germany under a somewhat different guise : ' . ' B. P. Benzin `> Deutsche Shell Socony-Mobil (Mobil is member of Aral group) ' ' , Union Kraftstaff (Shell and Caltex) This group has also about 30$ of the German gasoline market. - Also of possible interest to you is the estimate of about 20$ as Esso's share of the German market. I hope this information will be helpful and if you need any thing more I am at your service. ,