GIANT PIPE-LINE
Costing £10,000,000 and representing the most remarkable undertaking of its kind, the scheme of .the Irak Petroleum Company, Limited, to provide for supplies of oil being brought from Mesopotamia across Syria for shipment from the ports of Haifa and Tripoli was practically completed in August. The work has occupied two years. The pipe-line begins at Kirkuk, Mesopotamia, and the distance of the route from there to Haifa is 617 miles and to Tripoli 531 miles. When the full pumping capacity provided under the scheme is available, it will be possible for the total output through the pipe-lines to average 4,000,000 tons a year. The oilfield in Irak, which is being drawn upon by the pipe-line, is about 40 miles square, and is said to be exceptionally rich in oil. The interests mainly represented in the Irak Petroleum Company are Bri--1 tish, Dutch, French and American.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4401, 6 October 1934, Page 1
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147GIANT PIPE-LINE Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4401, 6 October 1934, Page 1
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