OIL FROM BORNEO
REFINING IN AUSTRALIA MODERN TANKER FLEET SYDNEY, March 20. A fleet of modern British, tankers is to bring crude oil from British North Borneo and Sarawak for refining in Australia. The first shipment arrived yesterday by the Cliona and is now being discharged at Sydney. It‘consists of 3.500,000 gallons and will be pumped into barges and towed 12 miles upstream to the refinery at Clyde, which has a monthly capacity of 12.000,000 gallons. There it will be split up into petrol, kerosene, dieselene and furnace oil. The refinery, which closed in January, 1942, will be reopened on Friday by 'the Premier of New South Wales, Mr. W. J. McKell. Coming from British owned wells in Empire territory, the trade will be entirely within the sterling bloc. ____________
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21978, 23 March 1946, Page 6
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