Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the sub for a while. But as more than 30 planes and a dozen warships flailed Golfo Nuevo to foam with showers of depth charges, as troops in full battle dress moved up to the bleak Patagonian shoreline, as the Puerto Madryn air and naval base at the gulf's head went on a war footing, as U.S. planes rushed emergency equipment to the scene, the skeptics stopped in mid-snicker. Most important of all, President Arturo Frondizi took it seriously, and presumably the navy would not dare to mislead...
...Navy declared Golfo Nuevo a war area, out of bounds to airliners and ships, and blacked out the Puerto Madryn base. It sent intelligence agents on house-to-house searches ashore, put three destroyers, 18 warplanes, and some helicopters to patrolling the gulf itself, and lined up five warships at the seven-mile entrance, where the depth is only 60 ft. For top security, ships communicated with one another in the Guarani Indian dialect, spoken by Paraguayan naval cadets aboard the Argentine vessels for training...
...Government also introduced a wire from Continental Oil Executive Vice President Charles A. Perlitz to Conoco President Leonard F. McCollum in which he wrote, after much talk about crude oil: "Have not heard from Proctor as yet." Mr. Proctor, indicated the Government darkly, was executive vice president of Gulf Oil Corp., another of the defendants. Conoco's answer: the reference to Gulf's Proctor was about financing for the Trans-Canada pipeline, in which affiliates of Conoco and Gulf each had a 17% interest...
...concessions are being granted all over the Middle East. Examples: ¶ In Yemen the American Overseas Investment Corp. was exploring a 10,000-sq.-mi. concession in the northwestern coastal plain. It had beaten out the Japanese and the Italians for Yemen rights. ¶ In the Persian Gulf sheikdom of Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of British Petroleum Co. Ltd. and Compagnie Franchise des Petroles brought in a well that tested out at 2,400 bbl. daily...
...were producers. The two discovery wells -Zeltan One and Zeltan Two-brought in by Esso Standard (Libya) Inc. in the oil-rich Sirte district are gushing 32,500 bbl. a day between them. The company is planning construction of a 30-in. pipeline to the Mediterranean's Gulf of Sirte with an initial daily capacity of 100,000 bbl., hopes to have oil flowing through by the fall of 1961. Libyan crude is similar in quality to Mideast oil, for which European refineries are designed. Because deposits are not deep, and drilling is close to the sea, transportation...