Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wells; other companies piped huge amounts to the Pacific Northwest, Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Los Alamos. Oil company pipelines sent 120,000 bbls. of oil daily to the West Coast and Texas Gulf refineries from some 750 wells in the area. With great finds in San Juan and Paradox Basin, oilmen counted 300 new gas wells put down in the first half of 1958. They expect another 300 before the year...
...well was brought in in 1879. But geologists never thought there was enough to bother with-until the 19505. Then, hunting gas for the rapidly expanding industries of the Los Angeles area, El Paso Natural Gas moved in. Soon it hit a big gas pocket in the San Juan Basin, built a pipeline to Los Angeles. Within a few years it had lines out to 3,000 wells in a system so intricate that it looked like a page from Gray's Anatomy...
...91st anniversary of Canada's confederation, the big neighbors of North America thunderously marked completion of the major works in the building of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project (see color pages). For three days the unstopped waters of the St. Lawrence rushed into the basin above the international St. Lawrence Power Dam, and on July 4, Independence Day for Canada's U.S. partner in the project, the newborn lake reached its predicted shore line. Turbines in the power dam turned in test runs, and the U.S. Coast Guard buoy tender Maple voyaged through the new lake...
...will not say at this stage how the blasting job should be done, or how many charges of explosive will be necessary. An obvious way to make a well-sheltered harbor would be to use a powerful charge for excavating the turning basin and several smaller charges to dig the channel leading...
With enough tail wind to lend a hand but not enough to materially ruffle the waters of the Basin, Coolidge jumped into an early lead which was never seriously challenged. He finished with an estimated four and one-half lengths of open water between himself and his nearest rival...