TRINIDAD PETROLEUM INDUSTRY.
According to the Blue Book of the colony of Trinidad, the petroleum industry has now become the principal mining industry in the colony, and gives employment to some 2300 persons. Although the exportations of crude petroleum fell from 7.000,685 gallons in 1911 to 4,295,737 gallons in 1912, the wells that had been drilled were sufficient, the report says, to prove that the oil sands in certain districts held large quantities of the liquid at no great depth. Tlie Inspector of Mines reported that the Trinidad Lake Petroleum Company had drilled several wells on their estate at Brighton, and one, which was sunk in May, 1913 at a depth of 1900 ft, commenced to give oil at tho rate of 50,000 barrels a day. This production ultimately fell, however, to 20.000 barrels a day. The company under notice supplied H.M.S. New Zealand with 640 tons of oil fuel on her recent visit to the Dominion.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14916, 14 March 1914, Page 8
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