TARANAKI OIL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15, 19 January 1914, Page 6

TARANAKI OIL.

THE BMMHEIMVWELL. "A fifty-batfel-a-day well is » very

nice proposition, and I see no reason' why the present flow should not be 'maintained." Mr Van Epps was discussing the Blenheim well at Moturoa with a Taranaki Daily News representative when he made this remark, Un&.lie had formed a very .favorable, ! opinion of the prospects of the'welL j Mr Van- Epps is an American oil expert of high stianding, who is inspecting large oil options in Taranaki for the International Petroleum Corporation. He has seen the Blenheim well several times, and was very much struck with the excellence of the plant, and with the manner in which tihe work has been carried out by the field manager of the company, Mr Ritter Yon Fedorowicz. "What I like about his work," said Mr Van Epps, "is that he has not gone at it like a bull at a gate. He has made his- calculations beforehand, and has worked patiently along the lines which he had already mapped out. Because he has done this, he is having no trouble with either sand or water, and his oil is of a good quality. lam taking some samples back to California, along with some samples of the products of the refinery." , . Referring to the prospects of the oil industry in Taranaki, and, in fact?, in New Zealand, Mr Van Epps stated ■that, properly handled, it should be a good proposition. He had not yet completed his report for the corporation by; whom he was employed, and 'in ;any case would not be at liberty to make any public statement regarding it, but from his own observations of the bores sunk in the district, and of the oil obtained, he had formed the opinion which he had just expressed. IF he came back tio Taranaki, as was more than likely, it would be to sink some oil bores. , .