Prig Bnterprise — Texan Style

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Texas is renown for doing things on ea big scalo and whon it cones to “froo onterprise" of a rather dubious type it lives up to its reputation as the recent Billie Scl Estes scandal shows. Another scandal is now shaking the stato; that of 'dircctional' drilling. This involvos drilling oil wells at an angle soa as to poach neighbouring oilficlds. The laws lays dow that, oxcept in special cases, it is illegal to deviate more than 3 degrees. Foderal investigators have discovered cases of wells boing drillod at anglos of moro than 50 dogroes off the vertical. This means that for every thousand feet drilled one would be going 750 , feet into ncoighbouring land. So far only small and medium sizod operators have been implicated, but thoso apprehended claim that the largest firms are the worst offenders, Tho investigations continuo, but more than 100 cases have so far beon discovered and it ostimatcd that more $10 millions! worth of oil por month has been produced from these illegal wolls,