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(Hi) Nuqtah Saitapah — two valleys. — Many small seepages of 

 oil, on which pits h.ave been dug. The oil is less tarry 

 than usual and there is less sulphuretted hydrogen 

 accompanying it, the aromatic odour of the oil pre- 

 dominating. Only 14 of these pits are at present being 

 worked and these yield an average of 20 tins (80 gallons) 

 a day ; it is carried up to Gil (Bahrain Beg) on donkeys 

 where it is refined. The pits and seepages stretch across 

 the Fars outcrop for a width of about 50 yards. 



:(iv) Gil (Bahrain Beg). — One or two unimportant seepages. 

 There are four small stills here, three of which are in 

 working order ; they consist simply of retort and con- 

 densing spiral 



{v) A short distance N.W. of Gil. — Sulphuretted hydrogen 

 and a little bituminous earth. 



(vi) Nuqtah Sadiq. — Two or three moderate seepages, but 

 very little sulphuretted hydrogen. 



'■it) Between Nuqtah Sadiq and Farhad Beg four separate oil 

 localities are seen : 

 (a) Three small pools of oil. 



{b) A pool of water with a little oil on the surface ; just 

 below is a sulphuretted hydrogen pool. 



(c) Three or four pools of oil. 



(d) Two pools of oil, one large with a considerable quan- 



tity of gas bubbling up. 

 I viii) Farhad Beg. — A seepage or two of oil. Another small 



refining-still is used here. 

 (ix) Half-a-mile N.W. of Farhad Beg. — A spring of water with 

 a little oil and a considerable quantity of gas. 



The refined burning oil from this area, whether due to more 

 careful refining or to greater intrinsic purity of the crude material, 

 is much superior to that of Tuz Khurmatu or Kirkuk. 



Prospects of Boring.— The great compression of the fold and 

 the presence, within a few yards of the supposed crest, of such a 

 large dislocation as the reversed fault described, offer no inducement 

 to exploitation by boring. Deep boring is, I think, out of the ques- 

 tion ; it is very improbable oil " pools " would ever be encountered 

 sufficiently large to pay. Nor is the area much more promising 

 for shallow boring unless some particularly inexpensive form of 



