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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Working day & night, Amerada's drillers had driven a three-cone rotary rock-bit deeper & deeper into the earth of Osborn's farm. The rig's platform throbbed with the clanking rumble of a diesel engine spinning the drill. As the drill bit down into the earth, new lengths of 60-ft. pipe were threaded on to join the mile-and-a-half of pipe already whirling below ground in a single, continuous column. At 8,663 ft. the drilling was stopped, the drill pulled out. Hurriedly the hole was cased with seven-inch pipe and capped...
Easy Work. Wildcatting for oil, Jacobsen likes to say, is the easiest thing in the world: "You can make millions and millions. All you need is a checkbook-and money in the bank. You can get a competent drilling contractor to do all the work for you and you wouldn't even have to go near the place you were drilling. All you'd have to do is pick the place to drill...
...which oil frequently is imprisoned.) With the first batch of leases in its pocket, Amerada sent brokers all over the area, leasing more thousands of acres of land. Says Jacobsen: "When you make a big play, you have to be sure you'll have plenty of land to drill if you find oil. And you have to get your land first, if you want to get it at a reasonable price...
What Dr. Weatherby and staff were looking for was the peak of the underground dome. When this area was plotted on an ordinary contour map, it was time for Jacobsen & Co. to weigh all the geologic and other factors and make the final decision to drill. The big work was preparing the maps and locating the possible oil-bearing area; picking the spot to drill was easy. Says Jacobsen: "Any office boy at Amerada could have done that because you drill in the peak of the dome. As long as you stay in that area you could pick your spot...
Dick Clasby, John Ederer and Buddy Lemay were among the offensive specialists who played for a bit on defense. During this drill, the jayvees tried a number of long pass plays...