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...Slope. She quit the job in 1982, went to graduate school and set a goal to publish something before her savings from the oil patch job ran out."The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book, it wasn't a fee for an article...
...transferred to Swanson River where Wayne was the Field Foreman until his retirement in 1984. That was truly life in the "oil patch."Wayne and Bonnie returned to Camarillo and built their retirement home on Mission Drive. Family and friends joined...
...minute's notice to beat it north in search of a better opportunity. Some staked their claim to gold. Others to an oil patch. Heinzer and Miller have staked out regular spots in the lineup for the Peninsula Oilers of the Alaska Baseball League...
...about the budget for the state of Alaska. Chief among those concerns is whether the state revenue generated from the oil patch will be enough to cover the current spending plan without having to dip into the state's savings account. Legislators...
We continue to hear good news coming from the oil and gas industry in Cook Inlet. Items recently reported include ConocoPhillips' resumption of exports from its Nikiski liquefied natural gas plant, and Cook Inlet Energy's pitch to build a pipeline from west Cook Inlet production facilities to processing facilities on the east side of the inlet. This comes on top of news that Hilcorp is planning to bring the Drift River oil storage facility back online to accommodate increased production, and that the Cook Inlet Natural Gas Storage Alaska facility is now injecting gas.
...sense.People that fish in state waters for hire or for profit need to be residents and I don't mean the ones like the oil patch claim by setting up an appartment at a transport hub like Anchorage with lease holders being shift workers on opposing...
The governor wants tax relief for oil companies. Listening to him threaten and whine and beg for it reminds me of a steamy melodrama played out in the backseat of a flashy car parked in the dark. "Come on, baby, if you help me out here a little, I'll help you! Honey, I swear I'll 'do the right thing.' I swear it! Sugar, this car ain't movin' 'till you give me what I need so bad!"
...Kenai Peninsula in 1974, assuming wrongly that homesteading was still possible. He stuck around and found jobs in the oil patch and loading fish at a local processing plant. In the early 1990s, he and some other local musicians formed a band called...
...complex, crucially important but aging industrial system. After a decade of cost cutting and deferred maintenance in the oil patch, BP's own report substantiates a growing risk to the system. If that sounds familiar, it should. Every investigation...