Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1954Vol. XXIV, No. 11

Development At Papuan

p. 15 · Read in the full issue

Page 1515

Oil Bore

P. Moresby, June 8.

The oil-seeking Co. (APC) has abandoned the attempt to get any more of the stuck drill pipe out of Omati No. 1 bore in Papua— the line below 11,778 feet was too badly distorted.

A window has been milled through* the 6h in. casing, between 11,666 feet and 11,678 feet, and a side tracked hole has been drilled 675 feet, to 12,353 feet. Deepening is continuing.

This unusual procedure, following many months of work on the stuck drill, has created the belief here that the Co. is intensely interested m what it may find below 12 353 feet.

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