(SHUNGNAK, ALASKA) – Napoleon Black is a small man, made smaller by the vastness surrounding him. He was standing, quietly, sipping hot coffee. Before him, vapor still rising in the cold air, was a pair of lungs, a pool of blood and a bit of
The sudden rise in the price of crude oil two years ago provided the stimulus for serious consideration and allocation of funds — for the development of alternate energy sources. The initial antagonism between environmentalists and the energy industry has abated somewhat, although pressure to
Southern Mexico’s states of Chiapas and Tabasco are low, swampy areas at the base of the Yucatan peninsula that float on rich deposits of oil. The most recent, and most significant, discoveries have been made here, and production from the new wells has grown almost
Houston’s Shamrock Hilton Hotel is part of the city’s on-going construction boom, built in part to accommodate traffic between Houston and every oil-producing nation in the world. Here President Ford chose to attack Congress for taking a “reckless gamble” by opposing his plan to conserve
The little town of Albany, Texas, lies in the oil patch — any area where oil exists and is produced, and the oilman’s profession — between Abilene and Wichita Falls. It is surrounded by what are known as stripper wells, those that produce ton barrels
