Word: gusher
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...there is no money to develop the lead, zinc and iron ore that have been found in quantity. Abubakar dreams of building West Africa's first steel mill and a huge dam on the Niger. But the big hope is oil. After 25 years, Shell finally hit a gusher in 1956, figures the Niger Delta swamps contain reserves of perhaps one billion barrels...
...casually that perhaps it would keep better in oil. Straightway, Durovic dumped his whole supply into light (pharmaceutical grade, No. 9) mineral oil. The dilution is so great that the presence of the drug can no longer be proved. And of course its chemical composition was smothered under the gusher...
TURKISH OIL FIND near Adana by Socony Mobil yielded biggest flow (240 bbl. a day), best quality oil yet found in Turkey. The gusher rouses hopes that oilmen have struck edge of vast reservoir whose oil might end a major import drain on Turkish economy...
...remote sultanate of Muscat and Oman, Dhofar Cities Service Petroleum Corp. was punching dry holes all over the sere, cheerless wastes, but was still hopeful of hitting a gusher...
Pipe Dream. Near Altus, Okla., employees of the Sooner State Drilling & Producing Co. set up a drill rig, smiled with surprise as they struck a 4.000-bbl.-an-hour gusher a mere 2½ ft. beneath the earth's surface, checked the find more closely, then hastily removed their equipment, repaired the gap in the 16-in. pipeline owned by the Service Pipe Line Co. of Tulsa...