OIL REFINING AT NEW PLYMOUTH.
Oil refining is to become a New Zealand industry. A small private company with a nominal capital of £2500 will commence activities at Moturoa in about one week's time, having completed arrangements at a satisfactory figure with the Blenheim Oil Well Reclamation Co., Ltd., for oil supplies won by that company. The "Star's" New Plymouth correspondent reports that arrangements are yet to be made for the treatment by the refinery of over 1500 barrels produced by Moturoa Oil Fields,. Ltd., during the past two months from the No. 2 well on the beach. It is anticipated that (he plant now available will be able to distil 1200 gallons of crude oil each day. The programme of the refinery so far determined is that the crude oil will bo distilled in three fractions—motor spirit, Diesel oil, and fuel oil. At a later date, should the demand and other circumstances warrant, the kerosene fraction may be taken off as a separate product.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1931, Page 10
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165OIL REFINING AT NEW PLYMOUTH. Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1931, Page 10
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