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...rich reserves on the continental shelf with new and environmentally safe techniques. Administration experts estimate that the additional offshore drilling alone could raise oil production by 1.5 billion bbl. a year (or 16% of projected demand in 1985) and gas production by 5 trillion cu. ft. (20% of demand...
Louisiana fared better, thanks largely to the effectiveness of levees and spillways. Twenty-five miles north of New Orleans, officials opened the Bonnet Carre spillway for the first time since 1950, siphoning off 250,000 cu. ft. of water per second into nearby Lake Pontchartrain. Beyond that, water-wise Louisianians did what they have always done during flood season: watched the river and trusted the levee walls...
YAKUTSK, the capital of the republic of Yakutia in northeastern Siberia, lies at the heart of a huge gas deposit estimated by the Russians to measure 460 trillion cu. ft., or one-quarter more than all known deposits in the Middle East. Moscow announced last week that production had begun at the nearby field of Middle Vilyui, but it will not be easy to get the gas out. Yakutsk's Permafrost Institute is experimenting with new techniques to pipe gas and oil through the perennially frozen earth...
...researchers who keep track of world shipping needs and who have predicted temporary declines in shipyard activity. The moment to build at relatively low cost came in June 1963, and the partners ordered from Norway four reefers that were fast enough (21 knots) and big enough (400,000 cu. ft.) to deliver twice as much fruit each season as conventional ships. These "core class" reefers-designed by Israeli engineers and largely financed by government-guaranteed loans-eventually grew into an armada that by 1971 totaled 36. All were then leased to Maritime's main competitor, Sweden's Salen...
Under the agreement, the U.S. would contract to purchase some 2 billion cu. ft. of natural gas per day from the Urengoiskoye fields of north central Siberia. This gas will be piped 1,500 miles across permafrost to a warm-water port near Murmansk, where it will be liquefied and then transported by supertanker to the U.S. East Coast. At the same time, the U.S. agrees to purchase between 1.5 billion and 2.5 billion cu. ft. of gas per day from eastern Siberian fields near Yakutsk. This gas in turn will be transported by a U.S.-Japanese consortium...