TARANAKI OIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 168, 15 January 1914, Page 2

TARANAKI OIL.

AND THE 15LENHE1U ROUE. .MR. VAN KIM'S' VIEWS. A PROMISING WELL. "A lifty-barrel-a-day well is,,a vcrj nice proposition, ami I see no reason why tho present flow should not 'bu maintained." Mr. Van Epps was discussingl the Blenheim well at iloturoa with a Daily News representative when he nnide this remark, and be had formed a very favorable, opinion of the pro.spcctj of the well. i Mr. Van Epps is an American oil expert of high standing, wlio is inspecting' large; oil options in Taranaki for tilie International Petroleum Corporation, lie has seen the lilcnheini well several -times, and was very much struck with .the. excellence of tin*, plant, and with the manner in which the work has been carried out by tin l lield manager of the company, Mr. liitter von Fedorowicz. ' hat 1 like about his work," said Mr. Van Epps, i; is that he has not gone i at it like a bull at a gate. lie has made his calculations beforehand, and ■lias worked patiently along 1 the lines I .Which lie hud already mapped out. I'ecnuse lie lias done this, ho is hav ing 110 •trouble with either sand or water, and fliis oil is of a good quality. lam taking some samples back to California, along with some samples of the products of the l-elinery.'' GOOD PROSPECTS. • Referring to the prospects of flic oil industry in Taranaki. and, in fact, in New Zealand, Mr. Van Epp-I stated that, properly handled, it, should be a good proposition. lie had not yet completed his report for tile corporation by whom lie was employed, and in anv case would not he at liberty to make any public statement regarding it, hill from bi> own observations of tin- bores sunk in tin' district, and Che oil obtained, lie had formed the opinion "which he had just expressed. .If he came -hack to Taranaki, as was more than likely, it would he to sink some oil bores.