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Most growers believe jojoba's biggest market will be in industrial applications. Like sperm oil, the bean oil does not break down under high pressures and temperatures, so it is suited for demanding lubrication applications. Pennzoil and Tenneco are among the companies underwriting research on the use of jojoba as a machine lubricant. If that demand picks up, the new business could quickly take root...
...Texas electronics firm recently hired a Georgia executive who falsely claimed degrees from Georgia Tech and the Harvard Business School. Asks John Kelly, personnel director of Tenneco, a Houston-based oil company: "What do you do when someone is doing a good job and you've found a fabrication? If he is finding oil, do you fire...
Because energy is the lifeblood of a modern industrial society, the Soviets will undoubtedly make an all-out effort to tap their hard-to-get reserves. It remains to be seen, though, whether the country can accomplish the job in time to avert serious shortages. Concludes Jack Ray, a Tenneco petroleum specialist who is often in the Soviet Union: "With brute strength and will power they'll muddle through, just as they always...
What are the chances? Not bad, says Ketelsen. Decontrol of U.S. gas prices has made deep drilling worthwhile; there is a lot of gas 15,000 to 25,000 ft. below Louisiana, Oklahoma and probably New Mexico. Just last week, Tenneco struck gas in the previously discouraging Baltimore Canyon, 80 miles off the New Jersey shore. Farther in the future, Ketelsen has hopes for geopres-surized gas-squeezing out large amounts of methane that is mixed in with sea water in mammoth caverns along the coasts of Louisiana and Texas. The $3-per-bbl. tax credit, now proposed...
Time dicounts the importance of agribusiness, using USDA figures which indicate that corporations have only 2 per cent of U.S. farm sales. But the USDA does not include the corporate farmers like Del Monte and Tenneco who produce food for their own processors and packagers because they make no farm sales...