GREAT OILFIELD

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12903, 2 July 1936, Page 8

GREAT OILFIELD

QUEST IN ENGLAND LONDON, May 30. People in Britain may soon know whether they are living on top- of the world’s most valuable potential source of wealth—a. subterranean oilfield! The oil drilling experiment" at Portsmouth—the first commercial quest of its kind in this country—lias made remarkable progress., and within the next few months may produce positive results. Gangs of -driller® arc , driving through the earth at the rate of 200 feet a week—and at a cost of) from any tiling from £OOO to- £IOOO a week. •Directed by three experts from tho Persian oilfields they are working constantly day and night in three shifts. The only break has been caused b.y a. week’s delay following the loss of a “bit”—the powerful steel shaft a® b'g as a man and costing as much as £soo—wh:eh smashes through rock ,and. rubble alike with its -scones of teeth rotating in all directions. One day—and before long they hope—those.drillers want to see 'a,n niipleasnntly smelling liquid forcing its way Horn the toj> of the well. That will •iniea-n oil—in tho search for which they are prepared to pierce the earth to a depth of 15,000- feet.

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