Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-11-07 | Page 15 | Italy's Subsoil Found Rich in Mineral Oils

italy's subsoil found rich in mineral oils By EQDW LRD STRI I T. Intcniati' inol New- service Staff Correspondent fcj32&i ROME. Nov 6 Great interest ha W been aroused In Industrial and com- Hl merciul circles by the announcement i that Italy's subsoil, according to re- cent experiments. Is extremely rich In m mineral oil, which sho was hitherto My forced to Import from other countries, H chiefly the United States. Engineer t .Mario Grossi, who has made a special H A study of the subject, say that large I deposits of oil SXlat at ftlpl, in the j ! province of Caserta. only two hours 1 by rail from Komi-, and that oil in practically Inexhaustible Quantities is, to be found In BaslUcata, In Apulia and almost everywhere In southern Italy. The difficulty consists in the ' fact that the oil lies very deep, necessi-latlng necessi-latlng heavy expenses for boring. At . Ipl, where two Canadian boring n.a-bines n.a-bines have been installed., the pro-! duption already amounts to about 1000' litres of oil a day. Italy consumes! JOu.Ouo ions of mineral oil a! ar and hitherto only produced 600U tons, utterly inadequate for her needa in order to develop the oil Industry ! at home, thus emancipating Italy from the heavy tolls she has La pay, HVr, I to about 500,000,000 lire a year, the! Hi1 I government has decided to spend .-1 Bl. d O0O.0UO lire 1 nominally $1,000,000) in HKj R buying machinery nd in fn umJ m .1 HH 'm school for specialists. j