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...industry contends it already spends 30% to 35% of its after-tax profits on exploration. But because all the easy-to-reach oilfields have been discovered, the drillers must now sink deeper and more expensive wells in more inhospitable regions, like Alaska's North Slope or the U.S. outer continental shelf. Since 1973 oil companies have increased the number of wells drilled by a dramatic 63.4% in the U.S. alone, but even at that, new finds have been disappointing, and proven reserves continue to decline...
Typically, Margaret Drabble's heroines have been wry, intelligent women pitting their vivid psyches against their drab or otherwise unsatisfying outer lives. Her eighth novel alters this formula. Characters, female and male, no longer have the luxury of pursuing self-fulfillment or fretting about personal unhappiness. They are too preoccupied with current events -with the drama of England's economic decline, featuring a cast of millions of involuntary bit players...
...present prices-roughly an 18-year supply at current consumption rates. And though drilling activity has accelerated dramatically around the world since the quintupling of OPEC prices that began in 1973, new finds have been disappointing. But many promising sites have yet to be drilled-the outer continental shelf off the U.S. coast, for example, or much of the northern Norwegian coast. Oil geologists generally think there are no Saudi-size deposits waiting to be discovered, but there might be a few more North Slopes and North Seas...
...entry doors be kept locked. Entry doors have been locked only occasionally this year, Christopher M. Jedrey, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Lowell House, said yesterday, "The fact that it (the robbery) happened may mean that some action will be taken to increase security, possibly by locking the outer gate and issueing keys to residents...
...district-court judge had overstepped his authority. Delighted oilmen predicted that test drilling might start as soon as year's end. The decision presumably will also encourage oil companies to bid on leases scheduled for sale early next year on two other geologically promising areas of the outer continental shelf: Georges Bank off Massachusetts and the Southeast Georgia Embayment...