Papuan Apinaipi Permit
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The Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum Co. has been granted a permit to prospect for oil in an area covering 8,600 square miles of Papua. The area includes the Jokea Apinaipi Dome area held by the company from 1936 to 1952, and is bounded by a line drawn from the Papuan southern coast at the 145th parallel of longitude, north to the Papua-NG border, then along the border to the 147th parellel and south to the coast.
The company has also applied for a prospecting permit of 970 square miles to seaward of the above area. The coast line involved extends from about 20 miles north-west of Port Moresby to roughly the head of the Gulf.
Asked w’hether active prospecting measures were planned for these off-shore waters in the near future, the company had no comment to make in Sydney late in April.