Word: mobilize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incurable gamblers that they are, oilmen seldom quit. Shell is moving its rig southward and, along with a group of 18 partners, will sink a second well, to a planned 16,000 ft. Mobil, Exxon and Texaco are pressing ahead with test borings of their own. They recognize that a few disappointments should not cause them to give up the search at sea. So far, only two test wells-the Conoco and Shell dry holes-have been drilled to completion in the Baltimore Canyon. By comparison, at least eleven were sunk into Alaska's North Slope before a good...
...more than 60% of capacity, causing a substantial drain on Gulfs petrochemical earnings. Gulf also acquired for $455 million Kewanee Industries, a specialty chemical firm. In all, the company's 1977 capital spending came to $3 billion, much more than that of bigger companies such as Texaco and Mobil...
...Respect! You don't deserve Respect!! And if you ever get Respect, we're getting a divorce, since your not getting Respect is apparently the only thing that keeps the bucks rolling in. If I were you, I'd feel lower than you felt when Mobil hired you to play a tankful of gas in that high-budget ad of theirs...
...their employment and sales data and other policies within a year. But it is illegal for companies in South Africa to publicize sales to the military or Rhodesia. Such transactions are camouflaged as sales to other government agencies. The United States Department of State claimed it could not investigate Mobil Oil marketing in Rhodesia, because of these practices; does the Harvard Corporation think it can be more effective...
...less developed countries. General Electric recently developed a tank that uses common salt to store for long periods heat collected by solar panels. Along with Owens-Illinois, G.E. is also working on advanced vacuum-tube rooftop solar collectors that double efficiency and cut costs in half. Exxon and Mobil are experimenting with photovoltaics, which they predict could be cost-effective by 1985. Martin Marietta and McDonnell Douglas, using aerospace technology, are now studying ways of building economical solar furnaces...