OIL SUPPLIES

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 68, 13 December 1939, Page 8

OIL SUPPLIES

Successful Bore In England

By Telegraph—Press Association.

AUCKLAND, December 12. “For the first time in history oil is now being produced in commercial quantities in England, a well sunk at Allerton, in Nottinghamshire, six months ago being operated successfully,” states Mr. S. D. Rogers, an American geologist, who is a passenger to California by the Monterey. Mr. Rogers said that the firm with which he is associated had been, instrumental in discovering the field 18 months ago. The prospects from a geological point of view were excellent. Hitherto small wells bad been operating from which a. few barrels had been obtained dally, but the Allerton bore placed a different complexion on the future position. He understood that additional wells were being sunk in tbe neighbourhood. Tbe search for oil throughout the world had been intensified in recent years. Actually there was no shortage or potential shortage of oil. The recent discovery of huge oil-bearing formations in Iran and the island of Bahrein assured the world of future supplies for countless years. The problem was one of distribution and the efforts of tbe big companies were directed toward the discovery, of fields in consuming countries. This, he said, would explain the intensification of the search in New Zealand,