OIL COMPANY SEEKS STORAGE SITES

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5303, 16 January 1947, Page 5

OIL COMPANY SEEKS STORAGE SITES

Construxtion Will Be Task For N.Z. Engmeers AUCKLAND, last night. The seareh for sites for bulk oil storage installations in the four main eentres is to be earried out by officials of the British Petroleum Company of New Zealand Limited, according to Mr. AI. B. Fuller, one of the direetors who arrived by Tasman tlying-boat from Sydney, after a visit to an asseciated company in A-Uotralia. ■Mr. Fuller is also manager of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. in Europe, and he was accompanied by a technical adviser, Mr. R. J. Hucks. They were met on arrival hy another technical adviser of the company, Mr. P. C. Errey and hy the Puhlie Relations Officer of the I-epartment of Industries. Questioned about Ihe future plans ef the ccmpany, Mr, Fuller said that an associatcd concem, the British Tanker Company, was fully capable of delivering oil from Iranian tields, as British shipyards were completing one oil tanker every 10 days. The construction of bulk storaire depots at Dominion ports would be earried out as far as possible bjr New Zealand engineers. Work would begin 011 construction as soon as sites xyere procured, but so . far, these had not been decided upon. It was ' essential to procure sites within convenient distance of wharf facilities in' order to save pumping petroleum over an uneeonomie distance.