Oil Strike!
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Results from the latest Webb/Tonga oil survey indicated that seven oil fields had been dis covered on Tongatapu and one offshore, and one of the fields was Nukualofa itself, according to King Taufa'ahau Tupou. He said there were two wells drilled by a previous consortium. One was in Maufanga and the other in Totoli in Hofoa village. Those wells were too shallow and were just outside the Nukualofa field, one a little too far east and the other a little too far west. The oil field was sitting right in the middle.
The king said oil rigs could be in
Tonga early in 1978.