Word: catatumbo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with an eventual top of 70,000 barrels after all seven pumping stations are in. The oil yields 49% gasoline on straight run, double that under cracking processes (ordinary black oil yields no better than 24% gasoline on straight run). How much of it lies hidden in the upper Catatumbo basin nobody knows. The companies have until August 1941 to stake out their final claims. Then half of the Barco reverts to the Colombian Government...
...warm, moist trades are deflected upward by the first mountain range the air is cooled, releasing part of its burden of rain. In the tropical night an almost continuous electrical display can be seen along the mountain peaks, resembling successive flashes of sheet lightning. This phenomenon is called the "Catatumbo Lights," after the Catatumbo River, which rises in Colombia and empties into Venezuela's saltish Lake Maracaibo (see map p. 68). Early explorers thought the Catatumbo Lights might be similar to the "Perpetual Fires" at Baku, where burning natural gas seepage illuminated the discovery of that fabulous Russian...
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