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Show Baku Oil Fields. Tho oldest and best known oil fields near Baku nro now on a bare, desert-like plateau n hundred feet or more nbovo tho Cnsplnn sea. Tho oil sands nro found nt various depths. Tho pools nro believed to bo In lenB-Bhaped lenB-Bhaped pockets largely Independent of each other. Ons pressuro In many cases Is very high. As n result gushers gush-ers of great Initial production nro struck, but unllko tho Mexican wells, the production Is not long-lived. It Is bclloved, however, thot tho oil pockets are numerous and that many aro untapped. |