Word: caps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest question is: How soon? The answer, the WAES group found, depends heavily on the production policies of Saudi Arabia, which has the world's largest known oil reserves. If the Saudis decide that oil in the ground is more valuable than oil sold on the market, and cap production at the present level of around 9 million bbl. per day, the shortage shows up as early as 1981. If the Saudis more than double output, to 20 million bbl. per day, the shortage is delayed -but only for eight years, to 1989. Even if there is no production...
...NOTEBOOK: It's Yale today in a big Eastern League doubleheader starting down at Soldiers Field at 1:00 p.m. Coach Loyal Park says he'll go with Timmy Clifford (3-0) in the opener and most likely Werly in the evening-cap...
...introduced in the House Judiciary Committee hearings on Nixon's possible impeachment, Nixon says such things as: "You could get a million dollars. You could get it in cash ... Don't you think you have to handle Hunt's financial situation damn soon? ... We have to keep the cap on the bottle that much ... That's why for your immediate things you've got no choice but to come up with the $120,000, or whatever it is. Right? ... Would you agree that's a buy-time thing that you damn well better get that done? ... Get the million bucks...
...kilometers (175 miles) southwest of Norway. Usually crews conduct these periodic "workovers" by closing the valves on the "Christmas tree," or top part of the well, pumping heavy mud down the well shaft to force the oil back to its underground reservoir, and then sealing the well with a cap called a blowout preventer. This time, as the crew worked to fasten the blowout preventer, pressure in the well unexpectedly built up and blew out the temporary plug. A few seconds later the well itself let go, sending a fountain of mud, oil and highly flammable natural gas 60 meters...
...warned to stay clear of the area. A small fleet of recovery ships deployed booms to contain the oil so it could be collected, but their work was hampered by heavy seas. Two American experts, Asger ("Boots") Hansen and Richard ("Toots") Hatteberg, flew in from Texas to try to cap the well, and encountered more problems than they had expected. High winds stymied their earliest attempts to get aboard the platform; later a potentially dangerous gas buildup around the wellhead forced them to retreat temporarily. Using brass tools to avoid striking sparks that could ignite the gas, the Americans made...