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N0ETL1NG : 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— 



1886 

 1887 

 1888 

 1889 

 1890 

 1891 

 1892 

 1893 

 1894 



Barrels. 

 34,180 

 57,412 

 62,721 

 69,408 



105,384 

 137,882 



20 1, 188 

 240,141 

 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 * valua- 

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





America.* 



Baku.* 



1886 

 1887 

 1888 

 1889 



1890 • . 



1891 • 

 1892 

 1893 



z 







28,064,841 

 28,278,866 

 27,612,025 



35ii&3,5i3 

 45,822,672 

 54,291,980 

 50.509,136" 



48,412,666 



> 7.857, 1 42 

 19,642,857 



2 2,797,738 



24,285,714 



28,928,521 

 Unknown. 

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



3 Das. Kaukasische Erdol, Zeitschr. fur Naturwissensch. Ap., LXV» 1892. 



* Production in barrels 42 imp. gallons. 



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