[LMB] link o' the night: disappearing lake

[Nancy L. Barber]

At 5:58 PM +0100 10/12/07, Michael R N Dolbear wrote:
>"Now for the inside Texaco take on the event. [...]When an oil company
>decides to drill in any particular location, the likelihood of hitting a
>dry hole are slim and none. As you might expect a geological survey is
>first done [...]"
>
>insider ?  In my day if you did better than 1 in 3 dry holes in exploration
>(not development) you got promoted.

I think his comment pertains to drilling oil wells on the flanks
of salt domes (from the sentence before)--much higher probability
of success.  Much.

I remember the incident of the disappearing lake--being a
geologist (though never in the oil patch) I saw the write-ups
in Geotimes.  Pretty amazing that everyone got out of the mine!

     Nancy