Word: wildcats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amerada drilled a wildcat well 10,278 ft. deep, 50 miles east of the town of Grande Prairie. The drillers found only water, but discovery of the reef itself gave Jacobsen's geophysicists the clues they needed. They believed that by moving three-quarters of a mile away they could hit the reef again at a higher point. Last week they did. At 9,000 ft. they finally struck a heavy flow of good crude. It was the first major producing well in the region. ''Amerada has found something that has us all sitting up and taking...
Since the best way to find new oil is to drill unproved territory, one out of every four of these wells will be a wildcat. Every wildcat, costing anywhere from $50,000 to $1,000,000, will be a gamble with 8-to-1 odds against...
DURHAM, N. H, May 7--New Hampshire aggressiveness and Harvard sloppiness were almost enough to give the Wildcat lacrosse team an upset victory here today, but the Crimson showed sufficient co-ordination and last-half improvement to gain a 7 to 5 triumph...
...Wildcat attackman Dan Stone scored three consecutive goals after Ned Yost had given the Crimson an early 1 to 0 lead. Harvard seemed able neither to press an attack nor to keep up with the hustling Wildcats...
Coach Bruce Munro then sent in his reserves. Two minutes later, Wildcat Ed Sanborn shot the only score goalie Dick Thomas allowed in the last half. Yost, however, got this one back a minute before...