GREAT FLOW OF OIL.
FROM- TARANAKI E OR E ,
BETTER RESULTS EXPECTED.
' No. 5 afford,,, a ~,„. JJ*| »* Oil the top (J f ,£ ~i n, °d *■ h.gh ... the top of U,o derrick *1 M force that M almost unnrtaedj? «!l the history of local oil b o i-i„„ d a i The bore bavin- boon cleaned and ~ cvgr thmhuk«.»? replaced drilling was Parted in morning, and when 23ft had been the material encountered bcin- oil-JiM* throughout, the gas cam* away a „? 8 followed by anornptJonof oUM-daff Iho pressure wn s enormous, over 1000 " to the inch the manager stated anT? was quite out of the question to'measu! the oil output. "-««uro The .surroundings are covered with „V and mud,, but, the manager hone, to a certain proportion of the oil Th» »? is now down 2323 ft, and as won „ ,1 pressure relaxes, which may happen 1 any moment, the manager hopes to dive the oil flow to the underground tanks Before the erupt;,,, the well M {nI , of pure oil. This, no doubt, came J the veins that supnlied the 36 bunk a day flow. Willi the tapping of thei reins lower down it, « expected that ft flow will be eater than ever. 9
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14927, 27 February 1912, Page 8
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