TARANAKI OIL

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1959, 16 January 1914, Page 9

TARANAKI OIL

MEWS OF MR. VAXVEPPS. "A fifty-barrel-a-day well is a very nice proposition, and I seo no reason why the present flow should not bo maintained." . Mr. Van Epps was discussing the Blenheim well at' Moturoa. with a Tanuiaki "Daily News" .representative when he m'a'do this remark, and lip liad formed a very favourable opinion of the prospects of the well. • Mr. .Van Epps is an American oi! ex T ; per{. of. high standing, who is inspecting ..liirgd .oil options in Tariiiiaki' for tho International Petroleum Corporation. He has scon thq Blenheim well several, .liim'eisf;,and was'very mucly'strtjck .ij'ttK , the'excellence of the pl.iiit, and with tho planner in'wiiieli the work has heon parried out by the.field maiiapor of the company.) Mr. •Bift.pi''"v6n..li'cdbrowiez. !, "What- I like, about, .his. work," said Mr. Van Epps,' "is that'lie has not gono at it like a bull"at n gnte.' He lws made his, calculation;; beforehand, and has worked patiently tho lines which lie had already mapped out. Because ho has done this, he is having no trouble with either sand or water, and his oil is of a good quality. I am taking sqme samples hack to California, aloiiß with some samples of tlio products of the refinery." Referring to the prospects of the oil industry, in Taranaki. and. in fact, in New Zealand, -Mr. Van Epps stated that, properly handled, it should bo a good nropositiqn. Ho had not .yet conir plotecf his report for the corporation l>y whom ho.was employed, and in any case would not bo nt liberty to make any public statement regarding it, but from Ills own observations cf the bores sunk in tilie district, and the oil obtained, ho had formed the opinion which Tio had just expressed. If he eamo hack to Taranaki, as wns more than likely, it would bo' to sink some oil bores