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Oil in Burma
Oil in Burma

by  <Marilyn v. Longuir>

Cheduba Island

South of Ramree Island lay Chaduba, "famed for its park-like landscape, its scented rice, its breed of black cattle and the amicability of its inhabitants" (Collis 1953b, 96). The island was also known to prospectors for its "mud heaps or volcanoes which every now and then throw up earth and stones, and the exciting cause is with much reason believed to be the presence of petroleum." This "presence of petroleum" had encouraged prospectors and the government had issued prospecting licenses "for areas up to one acre at a rate of Rs. 8 per acre." By 1888, 124 wells had been dug on Cheduba though production remained low and no encouraging flow of oil had been tapped (Report, H.Bucke). What oil there was "ranged from a beautiful clear oil to a dark red fluid."