Oil Search in Papua
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IN Papua, the field of oil exploration by the Australasian Petroleum Company is to be transferred to the limestone region westward from the Purari River to the Dutch border. No more test wells will be drilled in the mudstone region of the Vailala District. Decision to move
the field of operations is based on the comparison of five wells drilled in mud stone with two in the limestone region.
Anglc-Iranian and Standard Vacuum ex perts have just completed an inspection of the company's permit area in Western Papua and this, in conjunction with a study of the maps compiled from the result of a 35,000 square miles aerial magnetometer survey by a Canadian Catalina team, has enabled the APC and Island Exploration Co. to draw up a general outline of future oil exploration in Western Papua.