BRITISH OIL ENTERPRISES
On a site about four miles from a largo British port a British oil company is erecting huge plant Tor the storage and refining of oil. A new village has been built in the neighbourhood of the plant for the accommodation of the noianoorffo and staff connected with the enterprise. Between the plant and the port a pipe line V® 61 ? COn ®X a and the first cargo of oil. brought by a British tank steamer, was recently s.nt along the pipe. So ambitious is the whole scheme that a statement has gained currency to the effect that the cost was about £8,909,909. The more accurate figure of £4.000,900, however indicates well enough the importance of tins development of oil supply in Great Britain.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 242, 7 July 1921, Page 5
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127BRITISH OIL ENTERPRISES Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 242, 7 July 1921, Page 5
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