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...outposts. Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming contain 48% of the nation's proven coal reserves, 15% of its oil and 10% of its natural gas. Many geologists believe that these estimates substantially understate the area's true energy wealth. Rising prices make it worthwhile for oilmen to drill into sites that previously were considered too risky or too costly to develop. Some experts figure that new oil finds in the four-state region could add about 50% to the nation's 29 billion bbl. of "proven" reserves and 40% to the 212 trillion cu. ft. of natural...
Adds James Vanderbeek, who heads the team from Amoco, which plans to spend $61 million next year in search and development in the area: "It's costing us up to $5 million to drill a single hole, twice that of a conventional well...
...spewing from an exploratory well, about 57 miles off the Yucat án Peninsula, that blew out June 3 when a hot undersea drill hit a volatile pocket of oil and gas. The explosion and ensuing fire all but destroyed the rig. By last week estimates of the total loss ranged from just over 1 million bbl. to as much as 1.5 million bbl. That is much more than the previous record loss caused by the fabled Ekofisk blowout in the Norwegian North Sea in 1977, when an estimated 140,000 bbl. escaped before the well was capped after nine...
Many power-generating companies would switch from oil to coal if the U.S. removed the need for expensive scrubbers on plants that use low-sulfur Western coal. The U.S. also has to dig more coal mines (including strip mines), build more and safer nuclear plants, construct more oil refineries, drill more offshore wells, develop more oil shale projects. All of these will require some trade-offs with antipollution laws, and none of the projects can be accomplished if small groups of zealots set out to block them while OPEC's new Midases sit back and applaud...
...children decide to marry. The newlyweds (Penny Peyser and Michael Lembeck) are upstanding graduates of Mount Holyoke and Yale; the dads are students of Groucho and Chico. Sheldon Kornpett (Arkin) is a very nervous man who delights in being "among the first dentists in New York to use the drill that spritzes water." Vince Ricardo (Falk) claims to have dreamed up the Bay of Pigs invasion. Sheldon wonders if Vince might be nuts, but Vince has proof of his most famous exploit: an autographed portrait of J.F.K. with the inscription, "At least we tried...