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NOETLING : PETROLEUM IN BURMA. 



The above figures seem to prove that there was no great fluctu- 

 ation in the production of oil previous to 1886, the production seems 

 to have sometimes fallen, sometimes risen, but it has apparently 

 never exceeded 45,000 barrels per year. 



In the following table the production is given for the calendar 

 years 1886 to 1894— 













Barrels 



1886 „ 34,i8o 



1887 









, 



57,412 



1888 









• 



62,721 



1889 . 









. 



69,408 



1 890 









• 



105,384 



1 891 









. 



137,882 



1892 . 









. 



201,188 



1893 . 









. 



240,141 



1894 









. 



257,290 



As already stated the above figures mark an enormous rate of 

 progress within these few years, but what are after all 257,290 

 barrels compared with the production of Baku or America? 



For comparison I give below the figures of the production of the 

 two most important centres, as far as I have been able to obtain 

 them. The figures for America are extracted from Stawill's 1 valua- 

 ble book, and those for Baku from Erdmann's 2 interesting paper : — 





America.* 



Baku* 



IS86 









28,064,841 



«7,857,I42 



I8S7 









28,278,866 



19,642,857 



1SS8 









27,612,025 



22,797,738 



ISS9 









35.163,513 



24,285,714 



1890 









45,822,672 



28,928,521 



1891 . 









54,291,980 



Unknown. 



1893 









50,509,136 



... 



1893 









48,412,666 



... 



1 Mineral resources of the United States, 1893, p. 8. 

 3 Das. Kaukasische Erdul, Zeitschr. fur Naturwissensch. Ap., LXV, 1892, 

 * Production in barrels 42 imp. gallons. 

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