OIL REFINERY IN AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE, Jan. 7. A spokesman for the Shell Company has announced that the company plans to erect a refinery costing £1,500,000 on the shores of Corio Bay, Port Phillip, 43 miles from Melbourne. The building of the refinery and tanker wharves is expected to take two years and will begin almost immediately. The project will mean a valuable saving of dollars, because all imported crude oil will be from the sterling area. The only bituminous oil refinery in operation in Australia at present is the plant of the Bitumen Oil Refineries, Ltd., which began operations in Botany Bay, Sydney, last July.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 75, 8 January 1949, Page 5
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