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...conference on geopressure at the University of Southwest Louisiana in November, a research team that had converted an abandoned gas well into a geopressured test hole reported recovering 10,300 bbl. a day of superheated gas-saturated brine, which yielded up 1.5 million cu. ft. of gas. The Department of Energy's David Lombard estimates that a geopressured well would have to yield 40,000 bbl. of water a day for five to ten years to turn a profit. Whether the reservoirs can produce at that volume is one of the questions to be answered by drilling a series...
Other sticky problems will challenge the engineers and designers. Sand will probably have to be screened out by costly stainless-steel filters at the bottom of each well. The corrosive quality and high temperature and pressure of the brine will demand specially designed piping, valves and moving machinery. The exhaust water will have to be pumped back into the earth to avoid turning the area into a swamp. The economics will look more encouraging, however, if Congress adopts a provision now in a pending tax bill that will allow a tax credit...
...Immigrants is unexpectedly peaceful and happy after the turbulent and troubled tale Fast spins through most of the 389 pages. Almost any other author would have left Dan Lavette dead, his stomach perforated with ulcers. But Fast leaves him tanned, muscular and poor, smelling of fish and brine, married at last to the Chinese lover he would not wed before. One can almost see Fast the grinning Zen Buddhist, sitting in his solar-heated home, tying off the novel with a quote from Lao Tzu about the wisdom of stepping off the merry-go-round of ambition...
...bristles with care for its surroundings. About half of the line is elevated, protecting Alaska's fragile permafrost from melting under the 180°F. temperature of the oil as it leaves the ground at Prudhoe. More than four miles of the underground sections are specially insulated. Refrigerated brine is pumped through pipes beneath the pipeline to protect the permafrost...
...National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Award for our cover story on alcoholism (April 22, 1974), assembled by Senior Editors Ruth Brine and Leon Jaroff, Associate Editor Gerald Clarke and Researcher Jean Bergerud...