IN QUEST OF OIL
MORE DRILLERS ARRIVE MODERN METHODS BLAMED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Monday Mr Hobert la Mar, drilling superintendent for the Vacuum Oil Company, accompanied by Mr C. P. MacDonald, engineer, and a party of drillers, arrived by the Niagara this morning and will proceed almost immediately to Gisborne in connection with boring operations for petroleum. Mr la Mar said that world supplies were not running short, and with modern methods more and more oil was being found throughout the world. Modern methods included the use of the seismograph. In petroleum exploration test holes were bored to certain depths and large charges of dynamite shot off, creating an artificial disturbance, the reverbrations being recorded by a seismograph and interpreted by experts, who were able to ascertain by them the depth at whici sand existed. As a general rule oil only came from sand formation. His company had the latesT equipment capable of penetrating vast depths, and if oil existed in the territories they had taken up there was no question that their experts would find it.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20524, 14 June 1938, Page 9
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