TO MANAGE OIL FIRM
Specialist In Natural Gas An expert on natural gas. Mr H. R. Williams, has succeeded Mr D. S. Watt as general manager at Wellington for Shell, 8.P., and Todd Oil Services, Ltd. Mr Williams graduated B.Sc. with honours in petroleum engineering at the University of California, and spent his early working years in Venezuela and Iraq. He was specialist lecturer in petroleum engineering at Baghdad University. Since 1963, Mr Williams has been senior adviser on natural gas in the exploration and production division of Shell’s central offices.
Mr Watt, who arrived in New Zealand soon after the 1960 discovery of natural gas at Kapuni, directed subsequent drilling to prove commercial production. Besides work on the four Kapuni wells, Mr Watts directed welldrilling on the West Coast, on the lower Wanganui river, and at the Inglewood well which, at 16,600 ft, was the deepest drilled in the Southern Hemisphere. Mr Watt will go to Belize, British Honduras, to work with two Royal Dutch-Shell firms operating in British Honduras and Nicaragua.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30959, 15 January 1966, Page 12
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173TO MANAGE OIL FIRM Press, Volume CV, Issue 30959, 15 January 1966, Page 12
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