OIL STORAGE AT PORTS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25084, 16 January 1947, Page 6

OIL STORAGE AT PORTS

SEARCH FOR SUITABLE SITES DIRECTOR OF NEW COMPANY (P.A.) AUCKLAND, January 15. A search for sites for bulk oil storage installations in the four main centres is being carried out by officials of the British Petroleum Company of New Zealand, Ltd., according to Mr M. B. Fuller, one of the directors; who arrived by Tasman flyingboat from Sydney after a visit to an associated company in Australia. Mr Fuller is also manager of the AngloIranian Oil Company for Europe, and he was accompanied by a technical adviser, Mr R. J. Hucks. They were met on arrival by another technical adviser of the company, Mr P. C. Errey, and by a public relations officer of the Department of Industries and Commerce. Questioned about the future plans of the company, Mr Fuller said that an associated company, the British Tanker Company, was fully capable of delivering oil from Iranian fields, as British shipyards were completing one oil tanker every 10 days.

The construction ot bulk storage depots at New Zealand ports would be carried out as far as possible by New Zealand ’engineers, he said. Work would begin on their construction as soon as sites were secured, but so far these had not been decided upon. It was essentiaP to secure sites within a convenient distance of wharf facilities to save pumping petroleum over an uneconomic distance.