B.H.P. Strikes Oil Again
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MELBOURNE, Jan. 26.
The Esso-B.H.P. exploration team has struck oil for the second time off the south Gippsland coast of Victoria. Tests on the Marlin Cl well yesterday produced flows of both oil and gas, directors reported last night. However, the significance of the results could not be evaluated until the testing programme was completed. The Marlin Cl is the partnership’s eighth well in the Gippsland Shelf Basin in Bass Strait.
Ampol Move
Ampol Exploration, Ltd., has allocated 410,000 dollars in its 1967 budget to probe the feasibility of secondary recovery of oil from the Windalia Sands on Barrow Island, off the Western Australian coast. The estimated recoverable reserves from these sands using primary methods had been given at 114 m barrels.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31279, 27 January 1967, Page 14
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