QUEENSLAND OIL BORES
DEVELOPMENTS AT ROMA. FLOW OF IMMENSE SIGNIFI CANCE. (Received 26. 2.10 p.m.) Brisbane. September 26. Professor Steele, of Queensland University, referring to oil developments at the Roma bore, said the flow was of immense signficance. He did not believe oil would ever flow up the well in quantity but the problem relating to oil had been altered throughout the Commonwealth bv oil having been found. The professor said he was convinced that there was oil in payable quantities in the vicinity of Roma. His opinion was that oil had passed through a porous stratum in the form of vapour and then accumulated. Where struck it should be obtained in periodical gushes. This development marked an epoch, and he now had the most confident expectations of findinc in Australia another of those raw materials need ed for making Australia self-con-tained.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 September 1927, Page 5
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