Ng Oil Search Goes
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ON Costly Disappointment at Hohoro
ALTHOUGH Australian Petro leum Co. has encountered another big disappointment in Papua— the No. 2 bore at Hohoro has been abandoned, after drilling to the greatest depth ever known in New Guinea—the Co. is determined to go on with its search for oil.
A new technique, based on seismic data, is now being employed to locate sites for further drilling. This may save some heavy expenditure.
The Hohoro bore cost at least £500,000.
The bore being put down at Omati by Islands Exploration, Ltd., has been cleared of the broken drill pipe to well over 8,000 feet, and drilling operations aVe to be resumed.
The Co. expects to go on with its search, at a cost of about £1,000,000 per annum, for another two or three years.
The Ladies’ Guild of St. Augus tine’s Church, Wau, NG, arranged a successful produce market on May 10 and netted £3O. The same group arranged a mannequin parade, also held at the Wau Picture Theatre, on May 17, which was very well attended The gowns on display were by courtesy of Ireland and Doe, Wau, and were modelled by the Mesdames Hawley, Crawford, Evans, Williams, Clissoldd, Gibson and Ireland and Miss Jenny Lane.