Word: rigging
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...potential has attracted dozens of companies. Union Oil Co. of California is drilling off Sumatra; Cities Service brought a rig in from Beaumont, Tex., to bore beneath the Java Sea. Others scheduled to begin exploration wells this year include Continental Oil, Phillips Petroleum, and possibly Italy's state-controlled AGIP. Last month a number of new offshore exploration contracts were signed. British Petroleum agreed to invest $8,500,000 in the first eight years of a 30-year contract. Gulf & Western Industries, the Manhattan-based conglomerate that has never been in the oil-drilling business, also signed a pact...
More Untapped Riches. Exploration around Malaysia is also picking up. Gulf, Mobil and Amoco have received concessions off the west coast; Esso has drilled four wells off the east coast since last May and has found enough promising signs to call up another rig. Royal Dutch/Shell, which has the only offshore wells now producing in Southeast Asia, has brought a third rig from the U.S. to its site off Brunei. And half a dozen companies have begun surveys off southern Thailand...
...walk to the belting rhythms of Jr. Walker and the All Stars playing Pucker Up Buttercup. "Let everything bounce!" cries our instructress, a blonde Viking in pink tights who bounces without even trying. You bounce some more when, bypassing the triple-dip chrome barbells, you are harnessed to a rig called the wood roller massaging machine. Your reaction is immediate: "T-t-u-r-n-n i-t-t o-f-f-f!" BACK WALKING. All is calm in yoga class. "Sink deeply into the floor," whispers our guru, demonstrating the corpse position. "Float away." Class ends, but next...
...start thinking about expanding the line's capacity. Some oil from Egyptian-developed fields in the Western Sinai, which was taken by Israel in the 1967 war, may be funneled into the pipeline. Test drilling is planned for the Negev Desert this year, and an offshore oil rig is now on its way to the Gulf of Suez to begin exploratory operations. A subsidiary of Denver's King Resources Co. surveyed the Sinai for Israel, and company officials reported recently that the area has enormous potential...