4,000 Barrels per Day
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Oil From Dutch New
Guinea
IT was stated by a Shell Company official in Melbourne, on August 23, that 4,000 barrels of oil a day were being produced from the Klamono field, Dutch New Guinea.
This field was discovered and proved early in the war period, but it was not developed until after the war. The first shipment of crude oil from the Klamono field was sent to Java for refining last December.
It is this important fact which has en couraged Australian interests to believe that oil will be similarly discovered in Papua, in the South-East section of New Guinea, 500 miles east of Klamono. £4,000,000 already has been spent on the Papuan search—see article elsewhere in this issue.