DRILLER’S HOPES
Oil Search In Waikato (N.Z. Press Association) • AUCKLAND. August 9. Mr K. C. Ott, a Texan oil driller with 26 years’ experience, arrived in Auckland from South America today hoping that his longest journey to a drill site will not be in vain. Mr Ott is drilling superintendent of Perforaciones, a large South American oil drilling firm engaged by the New Zealand Petroleum Exploration Company for drilling work in New Zealand. His first task will be ths supervision of the transfer of more than 500 tons of his firm’s drilling equipment, worth about £ 100.000, from Auckland, where it is being unloaded from the freighter Cap Castillo, to Hamilton during the next few days. Drilling will begin in the Hamilton basin on October 1,
Mr Ott said he hoped to strike "a gusher" in New Zealand. “It’s a long, long way to come in vain,” he said.
Mr Ott said that apart from a team of drillers from South America, which would arrive later. New Zealand labour would be used by his company.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30206, 10 August 1963, Page 12
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