Word: edmonds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest concentration of rotary drilling rigs in the world were biting their way into West Edmond oilfield last week, 15 miles from Oklahoma City. West Edmond was spewing out a $500,000 monthly payroll and a major housing headache for the already oil-booming capital and its environs...
...petroleum geologists, concerned with the nation's future oil resources, West Edmond is a welcome find. Its proven reserves are now indicated at 117 million bbl. (20 million bbl. qualifies a field to be classed as major). And West Edmond is young, its capacity still not fully plumbed. Further development may raise its estimated potential. In 1943 only 212 million bbl. were added to the proven U.S. oil reserves through the discovery of new pools. West Edmond will probably give 1944 a better record. But geologists look back to 1937. That was the year the new oil-discovery graph...
...most Oklahomans, these are remote considerations. They have an oldtime oil boom on their hands, and they like it. The West Edmond boom has robbed the Kentucky and Illinois fields of every rig capable of boring deeper than 5,000 feet. Phillips Petroleum is curtailing its wildcatting in the Panhandle, moving its equipment east to develop its Edmond leases. Over West Edmond's 27 square miles, Oklahomans could count 102 producing wells, with 88 more being drilled-and only six dry holes so far. Ready to be drilled when rigs are available are 150 locations in proven areas...
...located his first well at West Edmond with the aid of his partner's "doodlebug," the wildcatter's equivalent of a divining rod, which geologists scorn as witchcraft...
...Other ejected diplomats: in 1793, French Minister Edmond Charles Genet, because he had been appealing to the American people to upset President Washington's neutrality laws; in 1888, British Ambassador Lionel Sackville-West, after publication of a letter he wrote to a U.S. citizen advising him to vote for the re-election of President Cleveland...