TARANAKI OILFIELDS.

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 94, 22 April 1931, Page 12

TARANAKI OILFIELDS.

(By ■ Telegraph.—Press Association.) ; _ "; GISBORNE, This Day. Taranaki Oilfields report: "Waitangi No. 2 well—Big material all transferred to the new location and construction work started; additional casings and drill pipe required going forward." ■. ■ ''•.,"

■Coal, Oil (N.Z.), Ltd., reports'for week ended ISth April, ad'follows:—Omata-No. 1 Bore: Casing .now at 2503 feet, having side-tracked- 'all,; obstruction; starting to drill another 30ft before cementing.

Following swabbing operations, the Blenheim, (New Plymouth) oil bore blew out at an eai-ly hour onc Saturday iapraingand a heavy flow. of. gas started. The depth at present is .approximately 2170 ft. By 10 a.m. the,gas was 'flowing steadily, and the well was -under pei-feet control through a series of three 20001b pressure valves. The shut-in pressure was not tested, but a minute test of the volume was taken, and from this- it • was established that the well.' was flowing at the rate of 2,5001000 culsic feet of gas ,a 'day,.- The gas was lighted about 4 o'clock on Saturday, afternoon.' It burned all' night, was extinguished. yesterday morning to ' allow the pressure to accumulate further, and was lit, again for a short time last night; The objects of shutting; down occasionally was to allow the pressure, of gas in the bore to accumulate' arid, ensure clearing the bore thoroughly with a' steady egress.