SURVEYING FOR OIL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 September 1927, Page 8

SURVEYING FOR OIL.

NEW METHOD TO BE TRIED. WONDERFUL POWERS CLAIMED. A visitor to Auckland at present is Mr. W. H. Taylor, of Sydney, who represents a company which is bringing to New Zealand .a group of scientists to conduct a geographical survey of oil. The company concerned is Coal Oil (New Zealand), Limited, incorporated in New South Wales, which holds petroleum areas totalling 60,000 acres in various parts of New Zealand, and has secured for two yeais the services of a group of field operators who will commence work at the end of next month on the company’s properties at Waipatiki, near Dannevirke. _ New methods of survey will Ibc employed, involving a survey of the earth below its surface with the aid of highly sensitive instruments, the exclusive patents of the Elbof Company. The Elbof Company will not undertake a o-eograpkical examination unless the area has been favourably reported upon ■by a geologist of repute. A proper geological survey must precede a geophysical- survey. No geophysical survey, however perfect, can discover what does not exist, but if the oil reservoirs lie at. a depth not exceeding 6000 feet the Elbof methods, it is claimed will locate them and approximately delimit their boundaries. The suitable sites ioi the oil wells are then chosen and futile drilling is thereby avoided. The Elbof survev group now on the way. t'o New Zealand comprises four scientific field operators, specially trained in petroleum exploration. They are accompanied by Dr Rudolf Krahmann, Professor of Applied G eology at Berlin University, who is also chief geophysicist of the council of scientists directing the field operations of the Elbof Company.