Word: oilmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oilmen acknowledge Alfred Jacobsen, Amerada Petroleum's president, as king of the explorers. After others had vainly scouted the Williston Basin since the early '20s, Jacobsen last year sank the well that tapped one of the country's richest oil pools. But shrewd Oilman Jacobsen did not rest on the triumph; he already had his seismograph crews roaming north west Alberta in a hunt for new treasure. Oilmen have long guessed that an oil-rich coral-reef formation underlies Alberta's Peace River Basin, about 200 miles northwest of Canada's vast Leduc field...
...Brazil now imports $270 million worth of petroleum a year, equal to 14% of the country's total expenditures for commodities from abroad. Some oilmen think that Brazil has perhaps a sixth of the world's undeveloped oil reserves. But when Vargas, on a recent visit to the Bahia oilfield, plunged his fingers into Brazilian oil, and held them up for his followers to applaud (see cut), Brazil's production was still a mere trickle of 85,000 barrels a day. Congress, taking its cue from the President, is doing its nationalist best to delay...
...Oklahoma oilmen took time off to go to an art exhibit last week, and swelled with pride at what they saw. On show at the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa were 30 paintings that told the story of petroleum -step by step from geologist camp right down to the huge refineries, with their silvery tank farms and mazelike array of pipes and towers...
...collection was a gift from brother oilmen of the Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) 1,200 miles away. Standard Oil began to dabble in art in 1943, with the idea of dramatizing the importance of oil in wartime. The company commissioned several artists, sent them to study the fields and refineries, flew them overseas and into the northern wilderness where new-found deposits were being explored. And Standard has kept it up.* In nine years it has commissioned some 250 paintings by 48 artists, sent many of the canvases on traveling exhibitions. Last year Standard began giving them away to museums...
...look was enough to convince both oilmen and critics that Patron Standard had accomplished a worthy deed. Such notable artists as Peter Hurd, Joe Jones and Thomas Hart Benton had taken part, and they had worked hard to catch the industry's roaring youth and hard-muscled energy. In bright oils and deft watercolors, they pictured the bustling Louisiana refineries, the purposeful ranks of derricks marching across western plains, the clanging docks where oil tankers are unloaded. There were scenes of an oilfield set in the middle of a Venezuelan lake, of the eerie orange glow from burning natural...