OIL IN BRITAIN.

Taihape Daily Times, 27 September 1919, Page 5

OIL IN BRITAIN.

IMPORTANT DISC()\-'ERIES.

There are possibilities uf Ilé'.=r_«.‘;il fields in cardiganshirc and Surolk ands Lord Ccwch-ay’s experts are conduct.-s ing investigations, says a London paper.

Lord Ccwch-ay’s experts are conduct--s ing investigations, says a London paper. Shale beds about ten, miles from -L-ampoter, Cardiganshire, yield a flow of oi] paraffin which analysis says is of commercial value, but in addition to this ,pa.l-affin wax has -been obtained :”:'c>m a great. peat bog at Tregaron,_ a‘,-.=—“.-zzt three miles from the shale beds, Experts say the piesence -of the wax indicaieg that the peat is generating paraflin and as the bog is thousands of acres in extent it is thought that :2. great source of supply may have been fliscovered ‘

Another important find of shale oil is reported south of King’s Lysn, Norfolk, Shale lands, estimated to contain more than 100,000,000 tons of shale, have been surveyed, and numerous borings sunk to 300 feet passed through. more than 150 fe_e_t of rich oil shale. Commercial operations ,hav¢ ‘~.zready ‘been started.