Ustralian Newspaper
p. 105 · Read in the full issue
Xcitement
Ver Sepik Oil Patches
iUSTRALIAN newspapers in August made much of the fact that European living in the Sepik Dist :t of New Guinea had found oil (tches on water in a part of the strict outside the oil-search permit ea of any company now prospect g for oil in the P-NG Territory.
Some papers headlined the story reported Oil Find in Sepik River.”
The Sepik River District, of which ewak is the headquarters, takes in very large area and the name is 5 only thing that connects much it to the mighty Sepik River. In t years immediately before World ar 11, Oil Search Ltd. had numer s geologists in the field in that strict and behind Aitape, further rth. Work was suspended during ; war, of course, and since then thing has been done in this district.
As far as the oil patches are con rned—everyone who has lived in s district has seen the oily patches wet and swampy land and knows it of themselves they do not indi te the presence of petroleum be v. If this is all the un-named iropean in the Sepik has recently covered then we are probably no arer finding oil “in the Sepik ver” or anywhere else in NG.