SEISMIC SURVEY
Intensive Oil Search In Taranaki
THIRD MAJOR ATTACK By Telegraph—Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, March. 20. A seismic survey of Taranaki, the third major attack in the New Zealand Petroleum Company’s intensive search for oil in the province, will begin on Wednesday near Lepperton. The work will be done by a party of 15 men, including seven technical experts, equipped with four truckloads of the latest portable equipment. The leader of the party, Mr. R. C. Clark, who has been making advance preparations, has 'been joined by six American technicians and the equipment and trucks, including a long derreck for a portable drill, are expected to arrive at New Plymouth tomorrow. The seven technicians will be supplemented” by three men transferred from the company’s operations elsewhere in New Zealand and by five men recruited in Taranaki.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 150, 21 March 1939, Page 10
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137SEISMIC SURVEY Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 150, 21 March 1939, Page 10
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