Word: rivadavia
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...cargo planes were dropping like slow-moving drone bees onto the runways, their engines still running as they loaded up for unknown destinations. Despite reports of heavy British bombing of the runway at Port Stanley, one pallet of mail and Argentine magazines was routinely marked is. MALVINAS. In Comodoro Rivadavia a convoy of perhaps 40 Mercedes-Benz trucks painted in camouflage carried units of the country's elite paratrooper corps. I was repeatedly told that the reason for the tightened security at the airports was an expected mainland bombardment by the British. The towns behind the airports remained oddly...
...Gallegos I was put aboard a six-seat air force Turbo Commander bound for Comodoro Rivadavia. It was jammed with commuting army officers. There were no buenos dias, no smiles. Just two hours of their staring impassively at the American passenger. Their looks said they assumed I was there because I had done something wrong, something against them and their country...
Into the town of Comodoro Rivadavia on the windswept Patagonian coast flew President Arturo Frondizi last week to celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the day an Alsatian engineer, drilling for water, brought in the country's first paying oil well. What Frondizi saw, touring by open car, was a brash and bustling boom town (pop. 23,000) where the sprawling trailer camps are guyed by wire against the 75m.p.h. gales, where tricky tides buffet the three to four ships putting in daily at the busy port, where U.S., British, Dutch and Italian oilmen elbow up in nightclubs to watch...
...Gamble. The Comodoro Rivadavia field is a dramatic sample of a daring gamble by Frondizi that paid off. Bucking emotional Argentine nationalism, Frondizi last year invented an imaginative patchwork of "service and development" contracts between foreign oil companies and the state monopoly, Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales (YPF). The device has paid off in 17 months with more than 100 new wells from chilly Tierra del Fuego to mountain country near the Bolivian border. Oil production is up 30%, to 44 million bbl. a year...
...time limit of the contracts made speed advisable, and the companies moved fast. Texas' Loffland Bros., drilling for Pan American, shipped ten rigs to Comodoro Rivadavia within 60 days after the deal was closed, so far has brought in 81 wells. The Loeb, Rhoades group, on proven ground in central Mendoza province, has brought in 48 wells; Tennessee Gas hit four producers in Tierra del Fuego. Wildcatting in Patagonia, Union Oil brought in a new field in November...