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SIR EDMUND TEALE, in a desire to clarify the position with regard to the occurrence of oil in Gippsland, has carried out a critical examination of published literature on the subject and has also paid a personal visit to the Lakes Entrance region in company with a geologist, a palæontologist and a consulting engineer. The report of his findings issued in July of this year shows that, in so far as the literature is concerned, this is in many ways incomplete and, moreover, embodies a wealth of conflicting opinions. For example, the Oil Advisory Committee's report of February 1937 reflects a cautious but optimistic view of oil possibilities in the Lakes Entrance area, while another report issued by the same authority and only a year later takes a definitely pessimistic outlook of such possibilities. A third report issued by the Committee at the end of 1938 was as constructive as the preceding one had been destructive.
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Oil Search and Occurrence in Gippsland, Victoria. Nature 147, 31 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147031a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147031a0