PETROLEUM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 113, 6 October 1914, Page 4

PETROLEUM.

TARANAKI (N.Z.) GUL WEUB, LTD.

The great outburst of gas, maid and oil reported at the. No. 6 bore the other day necessitated the boarding in of the derrick, with a view to confhunf,' any further activity within the derrick itself. While this work was ibeing allied out, the bore/ was clearing itself of mud and silt, which was discharged with largo quantities of oil, which proved very difficult to separate, a»d consequently impossible to save. On Friday last the first pure oil, cons'sting of about ten barrels, was taak «d, und from Saturday, when work ceased at noon, up to yesterday morning 30 barrels of pure oil had been won. Drilling operations again, -resumed, and after drilling about five feet arc(.tlu<r strong gas vein, was penetrated Thi3 bore is in very good country, and the constant encounters of ga« point in the direction of more oil. No. 2 bore. —The almost tiwOummOTHi'Coblo difficulties attending thin 4>o*B have now 'been overcome, aiul iihe casing carried to within three feci of tii» original bottom. It is the intention, of the mamger to carry the eas'mp down into hard fnrnwiHon, and then ooiiiiumic ' to sand-pump the bore, with a view to producing a flow of oil equal to that obtained for nearly three years, namely, 100 barrels weekly. Certainly t!ii» bore ia in a better conditio)* now than at any previous time in ita history, and the pumping operations will be watched with interest.

Ilotory bore. —Considerable oil wfis secured from this bore during hist week and a smaller tube is being inserted to induce a constant, flow, f-hould thin not reach the expectations of those interested, the well will be fcepencd. No 9 bore.—This bore continues to flow with little variation.

The demand for the refined products are good, and it is BJncereJy to be boned that sulfici3nt oil may be t» keep the refinery plant in constant work.