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Slow & Frustrating. The first drill rig had to be transported by barge from Peru, dismantled, then dragged across the machete-cleared jungle. It took three months to move the rig from river port to drill site-a mere 20-minute hop by air. Since that early experience, virtually everything has been airlifted. To date, helicopters have transported about 80,000 tons of cargo and 131,000 passengers to and from the Orito field. But even with air support, it takes four days and 300 helicopter trips to shift the specially designed drilling rig from one site to another, five miles...
...General Dynamics' Star II and Star III are versatile two-man submersibles that can be equipped with manipulators that operate like a hand or are fitted to become a drill, a saw, a wrench or a grapple. They are equipped with advanced electronics, TV cameras and side-looking sonar. They can remain under water for from eight to twelve hours. Designed for work on the Continental shelves, the Stars have been used for acoustical research, archaeological investigation, and pictorial surveys of underwater cables to check for signs of deterioration...
...first period on two scores by Cavanagh, one by Barker, and one off the stick of left defenseman David Jones. Jones, described by Coach Gene Kinasewich as probably the "hardest shooter at Harvard, including the varsity," took advantage of a bad clear by his Dartmouth counterpart to drill a wrist shot from the blue line over the Hanover goalie's shoulder...
...basic $1,200 fee plus a small charge ($1.80 to $3.50) for each enrollee. Xerox sells its customers on the fact that managers spend 45% of their time listening to others; yet let most of what they hear go in one ear and out the other. The half-day drill brings marked improvement: "retention" rates in one group of salesmen (notoriously poor listeners) rose from 20% to 84% after the course. Jarman was so enthusiastic about the program that he ordered the sessions for 800 other Genesco staffers. "The listening course sharpens a latent skill," says General Electric Personnel Consultant...
...designed to increase natural-gas output. The blast was intended to shatter a large portion of the 285-ft.-thick layer of gas-bearing sandstone lying beneath the Leandro Canyon, thus releasing gas that is tightly locked within the rock. 35-Story Cavity. Ordinarily, gas is obtained simply by drilling a well into a formation of gas-bearing rock. Natural underground pressures then force the gas through pores in the rock into the well casing, enabling producers to tap large natural-gas reserves with relatively few wells. In large areas of New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Arizona, however, much...