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...House. They were there to hear bids announced for federal lease sales in the Beaufort Sea, which perhaps contains some of the richest untapped deposits of oil and gas in the U.S. The fields are believed to hold as much as 2.3 billion bbl. of oil and 1.8 trillion cu. ft. of natural...
...natural gas is siphoned off through a 6-in.-wide pipe that runs along the ocean bottom to shore. The oil will be stored in tanks within the pyramids and periodically emptied by ships. The project is expected to yield 50 bbl. of oil and 600,000 cu. ft. of gas a day, which will not be enough to offset the $8 million investment made by ARCO and its partners, Mobil and Aminoil USA, Inc. The capping operation, however, will produce other benefits...
...result is a 793-mile stretch of natural gas pipeline that extends eastward from Whitney Canyon, Wyo., to a terminal in Beatrice, Neb. There the pipeline will become a part of existing gas lines leading to the population and industrial centers of the East, delivering 350 million cu. ft. of fuel per day to customers by Oct. 15. Named Trailblazer, because it is the first major pipeline to transport gas from the Rocky Mountain Overthrust Belt in western Wyoming directly to the Midwest, the $1.4 billion, 36-in. line is the work of five different interstate gas-transmission companies-Colorado...
...high plains of Montana to the fertile corn belt in eastern Iowa, workmen by the thousands have completed another and bigger project, the Northern Border Pipeline. The line reaches 823 miles from the Canadian border at Alberta to the Midwestern U.S., and by November will be transporting 975 million cu. ft. of fuel per day, or enough to heat 1.4 million homes in the dead of winter. Construction of the $1.1 billion system began in the spring of 1981, and has required on occasion as many as 5,000 hardhats and other workers, laboring at nine different sites along...
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, in a discouraged and candid survey of his first year as U.N. Secretary-General, complained that in all the wars, uprisings, invasions and disputes of the past year, the U.N. had been all but ignored. The same can hardly TV, said of the American public. As it reads the news, or watches it on TV, the American public may think it is merely looking on, with varying degrees of attention and interest, at someone else's troubles. But to foreign governments, the U.S. public is a participant, and increasingly the most...