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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 204, 18 August 1908, Page 3

PETROLEUM.

Mr. B. O'Dowda, iu charge of the Upper Carriagton road oil boring operations, informs us that hw has just sueceeded in shutting oil' water at thc4oo It level. Tlie bore is now down IUOOIt. | Mr. 0 Dowda, who has ihad considerable ( experience in oil-boring in faraaaki, /■liiinL-* that after much experiment he is able to shut off watur m aay of the Taranaki bores. . Captain Andrews, an American oil expert, who was in New Zealand for gome time, has left on his return to the United -States. In the course of an interview lie told a Gisborne Times reiporter that he had not the slightest | doubt that oil could be obtained in Jiew Zealand in paj-ahlo quantities. Asked aa to « J 'iat were the principal faults that have attended the oil-ooring operation 'in tiro past, Captain Andrews taid that 171 his opinion not I>orm would prove suepsful until the wenSinkers succeeded in-shutting oil tin water, for unles* that was done no we 1 would produce oil >n payable {ties "I hold." he added, that tM first essential m nil-bom* " to rtff flu» wator an soon as ' ,ou ' IR , low the surface of the water and then the water cannot be shut off too <|u«_k- £ to the deeper the bore goes the greater the pressure 1 k " oW th ,t ' ba< W %rt«!m.'Zl£ a which, in my moner, for at that depth ' : "I 1 ' ~, sible to stop the water How when tilbore is below Hie water surface.