"FOREWORD ""Sources of Petroleum Marketing Statistics"" lists in one place@ for the first time@ all known major sources of petroleum and natural gas marketing statistics. This comprehensive compilation represents the combined effort of people associated with government agencies and with private industry. These were: - A task force reporting to the Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas of the Advisory Council on Federal Reports (established in 1942 by the Bureau of the Budget). - A task force made up of members of the Marketing Research Committee of the Marketing Division@ American Petroleum Institute. The Original compendium was prepared by the Advisory Council task force after a three-year intensive investigation of petroleum marketing statistical information. The draft was completed in 1958. Subsequently@ it was found desirable to incorporate the information developed by the Marketing Research Committee ?C which had independently completed a two-year study of state gasoline gallonage reports. The combining of these projects thus made it possible to include in the up-dated catalog some 124 additional sources of marketing information. The Advisory Council on Federal Reports was established in 1942 by the U. S. Bureau of the Budget to provide a source of industry advice for decision-making and planning in connection with Federal statistical programs@ particularly to advise the Bureau in connection with administering of the Federal Reports Act. The charge given to the task force by the Advisory Council was as follows: -- To determine the adequacy of present information in all public or private source to meet the requirement of industry and government. -- To determine the methods by which improved or additional information might be secured and the priorities which should guide any new work to be undertaken. -- To consider the types of marketing statistics which should be government responsibility and the types which should be the responsibility of industry. This source guide is one of many instances of petroleum industry cooperation with the Bureau of Budget in the Executive Office of the President through the Advisory Council on Federal Reports. Illustrative of this cooperation are the frequent consultations on reporting requirements and statistical programs of interest to government agencies and private industries. In making the catalog available@ the Marketing Research Committee hopes it will provide a useful and continuing guidebook to sources of information on the petroleum@ natural gas and allied industries."