PETROLEUM.
TARANAKI COMPANY. • Oil is flowing continuously between the casings of No. 3 bore of the Taranaki Petroleum Company at an average of 8 to 9 barrels per day. The well is now down to a depth of between 3750 and 3760 feet and'during the early hours of this morning there was another vigorous blow out, oil being forced from the bottom of the boro and flooding the interior of the derrick. When the men resumed work 4 barrels of oil were collected inside the derrick. There is nothing fresh to report from No. 2 which continues to flow as usual and there are no new developments at No. 5.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143473, 21 April 1911, Page 7
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110PETROLEUM. Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143473, 21 April 1911, Page 7
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