SEARCH FOR OIL IN AUSTRALIA
Received Thursdav, 8.20 p.m. SYDNEY, Sept. 4. Five Dutch oil experts are to join in the search for oil and natural gas in the great artcsian basin north of Broken Hill. They are geophysieists who are prewar menibers of a prospecting team of an oil company. After being flown to Australia, they are on their way to a camp 200 miles north ot Broken Hill to join survevors who liavc been working for months on prospect ing 90,000 scjuare miles. The geophysieists, who are searehing for oil and methane, operate in jeeps couspicuously painted and numbered to; aid identification from the air in ease of emerg'ency. The Standard Vacuun: Oil Company has set aside £1,250,000 for oil explorations in Australia and territories and the Shell Company £750,000 on a similar search in Queensland.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 September 1947, Page 5
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