Drilling Begun
Drilling has begun at the New Zealand Petroleum Exploration Company’s Leeston well.
The well, known as Leeston No. 1, was spudded in at 6.20 a.m. yesterday. It is the company’s first test well in the Canterbury Plains, and may be sunk to a depth of 7500 ft. It is being drilled for the BP-Shell-Todd exploration consortium and is the first oil well to be drilled in Canterbury since 1914. About 20 men will work the rig 24 hours a day, beneath a 142 ft derrick on the Brookside farm of Mr A. D. Saunders.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32053, 30 July 1969, Page 1
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