Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 August 1948Vol. XIX, No. 1

Progress Of Apg

p. 12 · Read in the full issue

Page 1212

THE Australasian Petroleum Company Pty., Ltd., reported in July that practically the whole of the machinery and equipment required for drilling at the new te»3t sites at Oroi, Upoia, and Hohoro in Papua, had been received from overseas. Construction work is well advanced at Oroi, where it is anticipated that drilling will commence within the next two months, to be fol lowed by commencement of drilling at Upoia and Hohoro.

Arrangements have been made for a British geophysical party to arrive in Papua in September to carry out a re fraction seismic survey of portions of the Company’s permit areas.

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