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...Damn it all," said one worried oil official last week, "a tough Oklahoma oil driller just isn't going to be satisfied to work here for six days a week and then relax with a bottle of Coca-Cola." But neither was a tough old Lion of the Desert, rich as Croesus, apt to be worried by such deprivation, when the welfare of his sons was at stake...
...Weaver was an old driller who provided one of the industry's classic anecdotes. Some 40 years ago, his crew was about to start drilling in Mexico in a cow pasture, when one of the crew asked Weaver where to drill. Replied Weaver: "Watch the cows and drill where the first cow pie falls...
Denver's own Denver-Julesburg basin, where oil is found at such relatively shallow depths (3,000 -6,500 ft.), is a driller's paradise. Sterling, Col., where British-American oil brought in the discovery well two years ago, has since jumped in population from 7,470 to more than 10,000, and 160 more producing wells have been brought...
...land where slaveholding is still legal-are a few Westerners, 45 Americans and 625 Britons, representing the Kuwait Oil Co. (a joint operation of Gulf Oil Corp. and Britain's Anglo-Iranian). Typical of the Americans are the Charles Jacksons of Cairo, Ill. Jackson, a weather-beaten well driller, runs his rig with the help of six Kuwaitis who are paid on a scale ranging from $1 to $2 a day. Jackson worries about his Kuwaitis: "They work all right if you watch them, but if you go away you come back and find them asleep...
...Bahrein's little Sheik, Sir Sulman bin Hamad al Khalifah, who came to the throne in 1942, is a good ruler. He looks like Jordan's late King Abdullah, has the same dignified mien and dancing eyes. Sulman's memory is phenomenal: he remembers which oil driller's wife is having a baby. He takes all the newspapers, listens regularly to the Arabic radio broadcasts. When the Moscow radio calls Belgrave a "dictator" Sulman chuckles, twits his $9, 600-a-year adviser. From time to time, in his Rolls-Royce with a coat of arms designed...