N.Z. OIL PRODUCTION

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 356, 17 May 1928, Page 16

N.Z. OIL PRODUCTION

BLENHEIM BORE WORKING NEW COMPANY’S OPERATIONS (Special to THE SUN) NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesi ay. The Blenheim oil bore at Mo:uroa has for the last three weeks been giving an average of about 4,000 gallons of first grade crude oil a day. When the bore was first put down in 1913 oil, at a good paying rate, was obtained at a depth of 2,000 feet. The engineers, however, thought that the flow would be increased by boring deeper. They sank the well to about 5,000 feet, but the flow almost ceased, and it was thought that the only way to renew the flow would be to remove the casing to the 2,000 feet mark. Blenheim Oil Wells Reclamation Co. took over the well with this purpose. At the time several experts thought that the removal of the casing would be impossible, owing to obstruction at the depth of about 2,180 feet, but the company’s manager, Mr. W. Huse. has been successful. Within the last three weeks the removal of the casing has raised the bore to the point where oil originally flowed and the company’s tanks have been receiving large quantities of first grade crude oil. The company has for some time been selling crude oil i_i Taranaki and Auckland. As the oil flows out of the bore it is collected in a pan under the building, whence it runs into the reservoir by a boxed channel. Arrangements for the thorough testing of the flow will be completed within a month, when a decision will be reached as to whether another well will be sunk.