A BLOW OUT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1188, 25 July 1911, Page 3

A BLOW OUT.

OIL AND MUD SPOUT FOK AN HOUR

On Thursday morning last at ?vew Plymouth there was a big blow-out at Ko. 3 bore, and for fully an hour the well was throwing up a mixture of oil anil mud to a height of 20ft The bore is now down to a depth of lOl.'ift., and it is intended to give it a chance to How, the belief being that it will give nu excellent yield. Hitherto (says the "Taranaki Herald';) a certain amount' of oil has been making its way lo tho surface between the .1-inch and 5-inch easings, but it is now proposed lo pierce the -1-inch casing- at all points where oil-bearing strata were recorded as the bore, was put down. This process will provide a free rait for the oil, which will come to tho surface through a 2-inch pump tubing. The task of making holes in an iron tube at points half a mile or more below the surface <!oes not seem an easy one to the outsider, but the tools employed are so perfect that there is comparatively little difficulty in accomplishing this and as accurate records have been kept of tlie phices where oil was found, the tube can bo pierced exactly at the right points.