PETROLEUM NEWS
The weekly report from the Taranaki •etruleum Company, Ltd., is us follows: At No. 1 liure the obstruction is proved o be a considerable length of pump upiiig lying inside of Sin casing and ■rossways in the bore. This will repiire to be drilled round it so as to ; et it upright in the bore, when an atempt will lie made to withdraw it. In Xo. 2 the water only rises to about 1110 ft (about 300 gallons), anil it is nought that possibly this water, as it is fresh, is coming from some of the earns where it was blocked up. On Thursday they pumped out two barrels >f oil, and on Friday morning nearly mother linn-el, while a good deal of gas .s coming up. Depth, 2123 ft. The depth of i\o. 3 is now 2314 ft, and it is cased 221)3ft, or within 21ft of the bottom. The drillers are now reaming mother hard streak to lower the easing m to. The indications are. about the same as last week.
The Sin casing is now down 788 ft in So. 4, and is in the same sand as the o'in casing passed through.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 28 September 1907, Page 2
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198PETROLEUM NEWS Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 28 September 1907, Page 2
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