RUSH TO FIND OIL
WAR INCREASES DEMAND DUTCH EAST INDIES (Per Prem Association.' AUCKLAND, this day. '‘All companies in the Netherlands East Indies are doing their best to find all the oil available because of the war emergency,” said Dr. H. E. Thalmann, a geologist and chief palaeontologist of the Netherlands Colonial Petroleum Company, a subsidiary of an American company, who passed through Auckland on the Monterey or. a visit to San Francisco.
Every effort was being made to increase production, said Dr. Thalmann, as the war had affected supplies from 'the major fields of the Middle East and South America. A general decline would have been experienced but for the war, and although few new fields were being opened, companies were exploiting old structures to the fullest extent. Many new refineries had been installed shortly before the war, and even aviation spirit was now being produced.
Dr. Thalmann, who is a Swiss national, is a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, England, and a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. His work is by testing samples of the formations being drilled to determine the localities and possibilities of the fields.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20569, 31 May 1941, Page 6
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