West Coast Oil Search
(From Our Own Reporter) WESTPORT, Jan. 25. The operations manager of an American combine carrying out an off-shore search for oil along the West Coast, expects the work to take about three weeks. The combine, Western Geophysical, is using Westport as its base to make a survey for the Esso Oil Company. The 156 ft long ship, Western Spruce, has begun the search north of Collingwood and will work its way down to Greymouth. The day-and-night search will take the vessel about 70 miles off shore at times. Modern methods of investigating the sub-strata of the ocean bed are being used, avoiding the destruction of marine life caused by the use. of explosives in previous seismic studies. The Western Spruce keeps in touch with shore through three radio beacons, one on Mount Stormy, at the rear of Karamea, another on the Buckland Range, within sight of Westport, and the third on Mount Ryall, near Greymouth. When the present work is completed the ship will move to the West Coast of the North Island on a similar mission.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31588, 27 January 1968, Page 36
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181West Coast Oil Search Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31588, 27 January 1968, Page 36
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