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Newspaper Article
- Title
- In Action! - Esso Exploration's first offshore well is spudded-in in Gippsland Basin
- In
- Esso News
- Imprint
- vol. 3, no. 7, Jan/Feb 1965, pp. 1-2
- Format
- Abstract
Esso Australia made oil exploration history last montlh when our
floaling drilling rig spudded-in Australia's first undersea wildcat well 25 miles off the coast of Victoria at 5.45 a.m. on Sunday, December 27. [1964]This is the first well to be drillied in the Gippsland Shelf Basin, offshore Victoria, by our subsidiary, Esso Exploration Australia, Inc., following the recently announced agreement with The Broken Hill Proprietary Company, which through its subsidiary Haematite Explorntion Proprietary Ltd. Holds the tenements for the area.
The 268 ft. 5,800 ton floating drilling rig Glomar III reached Australia on Wednesday, December 16, [1964] after a 71-day voyage under its own power - the longest voyage ever undertaken by any drilling rig. The voyage itself was an exciting saga of the sea, in the course of which the rig battled a hurricane, once digging its bows so deeply that waves crashed over the 35ft.-high drilling platform.
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- Bass Strait oil and gas records assembled by Dr Tony Krins, 1964 - 1987, BSAR03890; Krins, Anthony (Tony); Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Library. Details