NATURAL GAS SUPPLY.
ON MOTUROA OILFIELD. TO BE MADE USE OF. (by TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 25. The directors of Taranaki Oil-fields, Ltd..- Melbourne, have issued a report which states that a few days after the blow-out of gas at Moturon, its volume was estimated! at four million cubic feet daily. Latest- reports are to the effect that the vohime lias not diminished in any way. Recognising the commercial and economic importance of a permament natural gas supply, it has been decided to cap. the well and conserve the .supply, locating, a- new well for oil on another part of> the company’s Moturoa area.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 June 1925, Page 9
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106NATURAL GAS SUPPLY. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 June 1925, Page 9
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