PETROLEUM.
OPERATIONS AT MOTUHOA. Mr. Berry reports re the No. 2 well of the Taranaki Petroleum Company, Ltd., that everything is going on very smoothly and without any drawbacks so far. Eight lengths of casing have been perforated with about 730 %h. Sioles, or, with the new pump strainer ; 800 holes were bored, not two of which were on the same horizontal plane. After 12.30 on Friday the work of re-1 placing the casing was commenced by Driller Erlandson and stuff, and up to closing down time on Friday night about 720 feet, mostly in, single lengths, had been replaced, and up to noon on Saturday a furtlier 830 feet was put in, makjjii 1550 feet replaced. ' course when the bottom of the Bin. <■; at 2114 feet is reached probably , '„■ .rouble will have to be taken, for it was from below this that the damaged casing was taken, and it gives evidence tiiat there arc several boulders prolro lin« from the sides of the bore, lint every care will be taken to clear the wav. On a previous occasion it took three weeks to get down from here to the bottom of the bore. On Friday morning the oil had risen from about 1000 feet to within 400 feet of the top, or an increase of approximately 840 gallons.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 175, 17 August 1909, Page 3
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219PETROLEUM. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 175, 17 August 1909, Page 3
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