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Farther to the north, construction crews swarmed over the superstructure of a $230 million Great Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. processing plant that next year will begin tapping the Athabaska tar sands-an oozing black oilfield the size of Maine, which contains as much petroleum as all the world's proven reserves...
...Barrow Island, a cyclone-swept wasteland off Western Australia that until now has supported only kangaroos, lizards and one lonely tree, an international team of roustabouts is drilling with intensity and anticipation. The Western Australian government last month declared Barrow to be an economically viable oilfield, expects that by 1968 it will be producing 20,000 bbl. daily for a group made up of Shell, Texaco, Standard Oil of California and Ampol, an Australian firm...
...college wherewithal, he has worked both part time and full time as an oilfield roustabout and, lately, as an assistant engineer for the Standard Oil Co. He has done well; Standard wants him to come to work permanently after graduation. He has steadily dated pert auburn-haired Sandra Sue Harper, 21, a Cal State classmate, long enough so that they admit to being "serious...
...same Crown Point, Ind., farm that was sold for $325 an acre a year ago recently acquired a new buyer at $500 an acre. In Texas' Montgomery County, 25 miles north of Houston and not far from an oilfield complex, pasture that went for $350 an acre in 1965 changed hands this year at $1,000 an acre...
...pipe and liquefication equipment with which to develop the Okha natural-gas fields of Soviet-held Sakhalin island: in return, 7,000,000 cu. ft. per year of Sakhalin gas will be shipped to Japan. In Sumatra, Japanese oilmen promised to invest $15 million to carry on offshore oilfield drilling; Indonesia will keep 39% of the oil produced, and the Japanese will get the rest. And the Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co. paid $8,000,000 for copper and zinc mines in Peru; next year the mines will begin shipping concentrated ores to Japan...