RICH OIL STRIKE.
PARIS, April 28. Oil lias been struck at St. Gaudens after boring for some months. Crude oil is gushing at a pressure of 1422 pounds to the square inch. It contains 22 per cent, pure petrol and over 2.000 000 gallons were collected in a few hours. Sf. Gaudens is a town in Gascony. Southern France, north of the Pyrenees Mountain.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MS19400430.2.94
Bibliographic details
Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 128, 30 April 1940, Page 8
Word Count
64RICH OIL STRIKE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 128, 30 April 1940, Page 8
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Standard. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in