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...independent gas producers, who fear competition from imports, loudly argue that buying from foreigners would only make the U.S. more dependent for its energy needs on unreliable sources. Asks Dallas Gasman D.K. Davis: "Do you want Chicago to become dependent on Algerian gas so that they can shut the pipe some...
Despite the hurdles, however, a growing number of gas-producing countries are making plans to cash in on the rich American market. For example, Saudi Arabia recently decided to pipe its gas instead of simply flaring it off. To get the job done, the Saudis signed a $7.5 billion contract with the Arabian American Oil Co. (Aramco), which eventually intends to export gas to the U.S. Iran is sinking $6 billion into liquefaction plants and a fleet of 35 LNG carriers to ship gas to its American and European markets beginning...
...hours on duty and twelve off during seven days at sea. The center of the rig's activities is the mud-slicked drill floor, where half a dozen roughnecks struggle day and night with heavy chains and power-driven winches to shove 90-ft.-long pieces of drill pipe into the narrow hole. During the twelve hours off, the roustabouts spend most of their time sleeping, although they can also fish for baby sharks and sand trout or watch the latest porno movie on closed-circuit television. After each 84-hour work week, the crew is ferried to shore...
...cover on the Big Freeze. The Saturday night after that issue came out, Gordon Neal, at home on his Mount Vernon farm, got an unexpected phone call. The caller: President Jimmy Carter, who had been reading TIME and had seen our reference to the Neals' frozen water pipe. The two chatted about the fuel crisis, Neal's 160-acre farm and the weather. It turned out that Neal's pipe had burst and been repaired. He had, in fact, been in the bathtub when his wife called him to the phone. Said Neal last week: "I told...
...sounds like a great deal of water being whooshed through a pipe," Judy Stalker, a secretary in the Widener business office who has heard the sound several times, said yesterday...