Gas well fire near Weatherford finally quenched by dry powder blast
Work crews plan to reopen the quenched gas well after a five day out of control blaze. The fire was extinguished Sunday morning by a 15 second dry powder blast. Six workers were burned, with several injured and sent to Dallas and Fort Worth hospitals in serious to stable condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saul Nier
Houston
Fred Williamson
Williamson Drilling Co
Dennis Barrett
Weatherford
Douglas Dumas
Paul Ruland
Parkland Memorial Hospital
Dallas
Robert Walker
Poolville
Campell Memorial Hospital
John Peter Smith Hospital
Fort Worth
Jay Shelton
Robert Sullivan
Ammonia leak prompts resident evacuations near Wichita
About 130 residents were evacuated after a Santa Fe Railway tank car released ammonia near Wichita. Deputies in gas masks evacuated homes in a 6 square mile area southeast of the city. The leak began around 8:30 p.m. and was stopped when the valve malfunction was fixed. Two railroad workers were treated and released for exposure. Authorities allowed residents to return at their own risk as Santa Fe and local hazmat teams cleaned up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita, Kan
Wichita
Santa Fe Railway
Sedgwick County
Johnnie Carr
Poria
Wellington
St. Joseph Medical Center
Carr
Renault blueprints stolen from Flins plant X-40 robot line
Renault reports missing computerized blueprints for an experimental X-40 robot production line at the Flins factory outside Paris. Le Parisien Libéré notes no break in and suggests the thief knew the site. police are investigating with prior similar thefts traced and halted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Daily Telegraph
Paris
Renault
Flins
le Parisien Libere
Oil tanker bow towed as penguin fears rise in SA
A split Spanish supertanker Castillo de Belver drifted off Cape Town after fire and breakup. Three crewmen are missing and presumed dead as 73 million gallons of crude threaten jackass penguin habitats near Dassen Island. Bow towed seaward, 15 million gallons spilled, remaining oil burned or sank with stern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Town
South Africa
Castillo de Belver
Cape of Good Hope
Persian Gulf
Spain
SafMarine
Ralph Lang
Oil and energy entities listed with personnel and codes
A catalog style listing shows multiple energy firms and individuals with associated codes and numbers such as BORDEN Blair Energy 1 Miller 6600 G W Brock 1 Miller 8203 Ensearch 1-D Miller 6415 TXO Corp. 1-A Patterson 2714 and Exxon Corp. entries. The fragment references various operators, banks, and estates like Centerre Bank and Reed Estate alongside firms Amoco Getty Oil and Conoco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borden
Blair Energy
Miller
G.W. Brock
Ensearch
TXO Corp
Patterson
Crocket
Amacker
Dawson
Earle M. Craig
Lightning
Rosewood
DuBoise
Gaines
BTA Oil
JVP Corner
Oil and Gas Wells Off Midland Area in Texas Sparse Listings
Daily quotations from the National Association of Security Dealers show inter dealer bids on oil fields across multiple Texas counties. Locations include Glascock Glascock, Howard, Pecos, and Bordan with operators like Hilliard Oil & Gas Inc Exxon TXO Production Corp and Earle M Craig Jr Corp. Wells vary in depth from 5700 to 133 Avenger and are described with survey details and proximity to towns such as Garden City Coahoma Bakersfield Gail and Gail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glasock County
Hilliard Oil & Gas Inc
Midland
Brunson
T&p Survey
Garden City
Glascock County
Exxon Corp
Hattie M. Stephens
S and W Lines
Howard County
Earle M. Craig Jr. Corp
Avenger
N Line
Coahoma
Pecos County
TXO Production Corp
H&gn Survey
Bakersfield
Bordan County
H&tc Survey
Gail
National Association Security Dealers
Jes Ckna
U S Ship Tracks Ocean Floor For Oil Minerals
The 208 foot Samuel P. Lee sails from Redwood City on a year long, 12 million voyage to map seabed geology from Alaska to Antarctica. Over 100 scientists will collect data across 40 000 miles and 13 projects using seismic streamers and sonobuoys to locate cobalt and petroleum reserves in the Pacific and surrounding regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel P. Lee
Pacific
Redwood City
San Francisco
Alaska
Pacific Basin
McMurdo Sound
Antarctica
Fiji Islands
Papua New Guinea
San Francisco Bay
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County
Santa Fe
Threes
Associated Press
Dassen Island
Africa
Atlantic
John Wiley
Environment and Fisheries
Althea Westphal
South African National Foundation For the Conservation of Birds
Saf Marine
Okkie Grapow
Getty Oil
Falken
Mitchell — Holly
Frances Stockton
PECOS
Conoco
Elsinore
State University
Reeves — Txo Corp
Sterling — Dorchester
Terry
Gulf Oil
Central National Bank of San Angelo
Wildcats
Tipperary Land Co
Stewart & Stevenson
Ae Dawson
Ike Lovelady
ICOC
One
She
Bell
U.S
H. Gary Greene
Aleutian Islands
mid-Pacific
Bering and
Chukchi Seas
Lord Howe Rise
Australia
Vanuatu
Solomons
Samoa
Geological Survey
James Hein
Council
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Michel T. Halbouty
Association of
F. Javier del Castillo, M.D
The
Department of
Big Spring
Frontier Galleries
Odessa
Texas
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