BORING A NEW WELL at Kirkukt the Iraq Petroleum Company's oilfield, which has a yearly output of over 3,500,000 ions. Unusual picture shows part of drilling equipment suspended from derrick. RUMANIA'S CAPITULATION TO THE AXIS. POWERS has settled any question that existed regarding the disposal of her oil supplies. Rumania produced 45,000,000 barrels in 1939, but its oil is of inferior grade. It is likely that some of the British-owned wells there have been put out of commission. Picture shows the Credilul Minier refinery near Ploesti. This Rumanian company produces 3,600,000 barrels annually. NEW ZEALAND HAS a special interest in the oil fields of the Netherland East Indies, becausc most of the Dominions supplies come from there. The Veil, above, is in hot, wet, central Sumatra. CXPROPRIATION OF FOREIGN OIL INTERESTS by President Cardenas of Mexico caused international complications. In Mexico his action was supported in huge demonstration. lhe "coffin" branded "Huasteca" represented one of the oil companies. TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS ARE AMONG THE GREATEST facing the nations now engaged in the struggle for.the oil of victory. Huge quantities and regular deliveries are required. Germany, it is estimated, needs f00,000,000 barrels a year. Britain has to import all her huge needs. Pictures show:—Above: British troops guarding the Iraq pipe line in Palestine. Below: A tanker passing under a bridge over the Nechet River, Texas, U.S.A. AMERICA IS STILL LARGEST PRODUCER of oil in the »orU. The Sonta oil field. El Dorado, Arkansas, above, is ihe largest oil "plantation" in the nest of the States. Its product is valued at millions of dollars each day, and it is still being expanded.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 14 September 1940, Page 1 (Supplement)

BORING A NEW WELL at Kirkukt the Iraq Petroleum Company's oilfield, which has a yearly output of over 3,500,000 ions. Unusual picture shows part of drilling equipment suspended from derrick.

RUMANIA'S CAPITULATION TO THE AXIS. POWERS has settled any question that existed regarding the disposal of her oil supplies. Rumania produced 45,000,000 barrels in 1939, but its oil is of inferior grade. It is likely that some of the British-owned wells there have been put out of commission. Picture shows the Credilul Minier refinery near Ploesti. This Rumanian company produces 3,600,000 barrels annually.

NEW ZEALAND HAS a special interest in the oil fields of the Netherland East Indies, becausc most of the Dominions supplies come from there. The Veil, above, is in hot, wet, central Sumatra.

CXPROPRIATION OF FOREIGN OIL INTERESTS by President Cardenas of Mexico caused international complications. In Mexico his action was supported in huge demonstration. lhe "coffin" branded "Huasteca" represented one of the oil companies.

TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS ARE AMONG THE GREATEST facing the nations now engaged in the struggle for.the oil of victory. Huge quantities and regular deliveries are required. Germany, it is estimated, needs f00,000,000 barrels a year. Britain has to import all her huge needs. Pictures show:—Above: British troops guarding the Iraq pipe line in Palestine. Below: A tanker passing under a bridge over the Nechet River, Texas, U.S.A.

AMERICA IS STILL LARGEST PRODUCER of oil in the »orU. The Sonta oil field. El Dorado, Arkansas, above, is ihe largest oil "plantation" in the nest of the States. Its product is valued at millions of dollars each day, and it is still being expanded.