Word: rig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great day, early last month, aboard British Petroleum's offshore drilling rig Sea Gem, anchored 42 miles off the coast of Britain in the North Sea. Flow tests of the natural-gas pocket discovered at the site showed a capacity of 10 million cu. ft. a day, enough to supply the fuel needs of a town of 300,000 people and to prompt Britain's Minister of Power, Frederick Lee, to recommend building an undersea pipeline (at some $250,000 per mile) to bring the gas to land by late 1967 or early...
...North Sea. Crammed into submarine-tight quarters at night, buffeted by wind and wave, 36 men worked in staggered shifts, 20 hours a day, seven days a week, to keep the drill boring slowly into the sea floor beneath. Last week the punishing grind paid off: the rig's owner, Continental Oil Co. of England (a subsidiary of the U.S.'s Conoco), struck a promising, 64-ft.-thick pocket of natural gas that is yielding...
City Councilor Daniel J. Hayes Jr. charged yesterday that students have been unwittingly used by persons wishing to rig elections...
...jail term and a $50,000 fine was Jones & Laughlin President William J. Stephens, 58, who had pleaded no contest to Government charges that from 1955 to 1961, while he was a sales executive of Bethlehem Steel, he had met with other industry men in Manhattan hotel rooms to rig some prices on carbon sheets, the commonest grade of steel. Also facing the same sentence was a lesser executive, James P. Barton, 63, a U.S. Steel assistant general manager...
Capping a recent series of strikes in places as diverse as Libya and Alaska, Marathon last week announced that it had begun drilling the first exploratory oil well ever attempted in Northern Ireland, also prepared to tow a large drilling rig from the British coast into the North Sea, where it will explore one of the world's richest new oil and gas regions. In Bavaria, where it is making its first big move into petrochemicals, it is starting to build a plant that will use Libyan crude to manufacture acetylene and ethylene. In the U.S., the company...