Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, who last week visited a Siberian field near Surgut, found ranking Soviet oil experts confident but cautious. "If we said all our problems were solved, nobody would believe us, including ourselves," said one official. But the oilmen claimed that they were on the verge of major discoveries in the far north...
...project production figures. According to the latest estimates by the U.S. Geological Survey, Soviet proven and estimated onshore reserves stand at an impressive 80 billion bbl. The main problem is that the most promising reserves are located in barren, inhospitable areas where drilling is extremely difficult. In the western Siberian fields, tall drilling rigs perch precariously on unstable peat that freezes rock hard in winter and heaves and shifts in summer...
...Soviets win the battle for the Arctic oil? No one can say for sure. Despite their backwardness and bureaucratic bungling, the Russians have shown remarkable skill and endurance in their present Siberian ventures. They have learned how to insulate rigs against the treacherous thawing tundra and to use aluminum drilling shafts that can be sunk deeper than heavier steel ones. They have developed turbo-drills that, they claim, bore three times as fast as conventional U.S. ones. But despite wages two to three times as high as the national average of $215 a month, workers desert the frozen Siberian expanses...
...Gersh Budker, 59, innovative Soviet researcher in high-energy physics; probably of heart disease; in the U.S.S.R. Budker, who joined the Soviet Atomic Energy Institute in 1946, did early work on graphite-moderated uranium reactors and contributed to the development of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. As director of the Siberian Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, he helped design a "colliding beam" accelerator-now used in high-energy physics research-in which a beam of electrons collides with a beam of positrons...
...cynics around the league give the Lions about as much chance against John Anderson's 7-1 Bruins as a flickering candle in a Siberian blizzard. But the mood among Columbia's gridders, who can usually be found nestled in the jazz room of Morningside Height's West End Bar, which incidentally is billing the Frank Williams Swing Four this week, is one of quiet confidence...