...Coastal Drilling's foreman Bud Fletcher describes the exciting moment when Richfield Oil Corp.'s wildcat unit struck oil. **"It was right at midnight, at the changing of the shift. One of the men yelled that something was coming out...

...straddling the shoreline near the Escopeta tracts. Forest Oil Corp., which bought Forcenergy Inc. last year and recently struck oil with its first well from the new Osprey Platform, bid $30,355 to lease one tract in the Middle Ground Shoal area...

...refuge began as the Kenai National Moose Range in 1941. Richfield Oil Corp. filed for leases on the refuge in 1954 and struck oil in 1957. In 1958, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton announced that the northern half of the range would be leased but...