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Download or read book The Wildcatter written by Peggy Nicholson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking treasure—finding pleasure Penniless wildcatter Miguel Heydt has come seeking his fortune—oil—on Suntop land. But the cranky old owner of the Colorado ranch will tolerate no mineral exploration on his spread, so Miguel hires on with the ranch's haying crew and explores for oil at night. Until a secret contract the rancher proposes is too tempting for Miguel to resist. In exchange for unlimited drilling rights, he's to marry the old man's daughter, Risa, and produce the male heir Ben craves. Miguel woos, wins, beds and then weds Risa—falls in love with her, too. But minutes after the wedding, she finds out what he did and she flees. Eleven years later, Risa and Miguel meet at Suntop once more, and the fire between them is still there. But how can she trust him again? A man who'd marry her for drilling rights…a man who'd trade his own son for an oil well?
Download or read book Wildcatters written by Charles Moncrief and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true story of greed, corruption, and scandal follows one of the most famous oil families in Texas. Moncrief reveals how petty office politics in his family's business led to a frame-up, explores the effects from the subsequent IRS raid, and details the years-long trial that ended with the Moncrief family absolved of all charges.
Download or read book Wildcatters written by Roger M. Olien and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s and 1980s the Texas wildcatter was a recognizable figure in popular culture. Since then, the wildcatter's role is less celebrated but still important, as shown in the new introduction to this edition of a book originally published in 1984 by Texas Monthly Press. Drawing heavily on oral histories, this book tells the story of the West Texas independents as a group, looking at their business strategies in the context of their national, regional, and local conditions. The focus is on the Permian Basin and southeastern New Mexico over the sixty-year period in which the region rose to prominence on the American oil scene, producing about one-fifth of the nation's output. It is a story that covers vast technological change, governmental regulation, and economic fluctuation with profound implications for the oil and gas community. The new introduction brings the story up-to-date by addressing not only the subsequent careers of the wildcatters described in the book but also the role of independents in the current economy. ROGER M. OLIEN, who holds a Ph.D. from Brown University, lives in Austin and is a member of the TSHA Speakers Bureau.DIANA DAVIDS HINTON holds the J. Conrad Dunagan Chair in regional and business history at the University of Texas-Permian Basin. Her Ph.D. is from Yale University.
Book Synopsis The Wildcatters by : Samuel W. Tait Jr.
Download or read book The Wildcatters written by Samuel W. Tait Jr. and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wildcatters: An Informal History of Oil-Hunting in America takes a close look at the early histories of the chief oil fields of the United States, with special emphasis on the fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. The author, himself the son of a successful oilman from Blackford County, Indiana, describes how oilmen without much (if any) knowledge of geology migrated westward from Pennsylvania and West Virginia into Ohio, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and even into California, and how these “wildcatters”—a term for an individual who drills wildcat wells, which are exploration oil wells drilled in areas not known to be oil fields—would often drill holes that would prove to be successful and bring in new fields. Tait explores the very first serious attempt in the United States to develop and oil industry, which was in 1859 in Titusville, Pennsylvania, and how the great Appalachian oil field was developed, with exploration rapidly carried into West Virginia, and continued into Ohio and Indiana. A well-drilling in Findlay, Ohio in 1884 discovered gas, resulting in the opening of the great Lima-Indiana oil field, and the great interior basin fields in Illinois were developed around 1937, largely through the use of geophysics. Samuel W. Tait’s book provides an impressive historical contribution to the history to oil discovery east of the Mississippi River.
Book Synopsis Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory by : John Winsor Pratt
Download or read book Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory written by John Winsor Pratt and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They then examine the Bernoulli, Poisson, and Normal (univariate and multivariate) data generating processes.
Download or read book Wildcatters written by Sally Helgesen and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reprint of a previously published book. It profiles three generations of oil tycoons based in Texas.
Download or read book Wildcatter written by Dave Duncan and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As long as there is money to be made, there will be Wildcatters. Throughout human history wildcatters, the first great explorers and prospectors to lay claim to newly discovered lands, have marched to the beat of a different drummer-motivated by a deep yearning to be the first to walk on uncharted land and benefit from treasures yet to be discovered. In the future, wildcatters in space will travel to exoplanets, located in The Big Nothing, to search for new chemicals which, when transformed into pharmaceuticals, will bring untold wealth and fame to the individuals and corporations that stake their claim for exclusive exploitation rights. Such is the quest of the crew of the independent starship Golden Hind, whose mission is to travel a year and a half to "Cacafuego", beat the larger corporations to the exoplanet's resources, and strike it rich for themselves. But will a yellow warning flag, planted above the planet, stop them? Or will the Golden Hind's prospector foray to the planet's surface, possibly to never return alive?
Book Synopsis King of the Wildcatters by : Ray Miles
Download or read book King of the Wildcatters written by Ray Miles and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legend among oilmen, Tom Slick was an independent operator in the truest sense. His office was his buggy during his early days of wildcatting the Mid-Continent oil field around 1910. And even after great success brought him to posher surroundings in an Oklahoma City office suite, his style remained hands-on. His impromptu deals were often brokered on street corners and over the telephone in his typical laconic style. Well into the 1920s he was the last of a breed who had no stock holders or board members to answer to, and instead "worked out of his hip pocket." Slick's extraordinary rise paralleled that of the modern petroleum industry. He began his career in the oil fields of western Pennsylvania, the birthplace of the American oil business. Before 1910, he headed west, traveling with his father and brother to the fields of Kansas to work as contract drillers. Slick met with failure in these early years, as he moved on to Oklahoma in an attempt to locate oil. In 1912 he received the financial backing to drill one more well, which turned out to be the discovery well for the vast Cushing Field. This amazing success was followed by more discoveries of fields - a frenzy of acquiring, drilling, then selling that in 1929 culminated with Slick's sale of his Oklahoma holdings in the Prairie Oil and Gas Company - up until that time, the largest sale of oil properties by an individual. In this first biography of Tom Slick, Ray Miles fleshes out the man who, despite his legendary drive - and the high-profile nature of the oil business - was exceedingly private and withdrawn. Miles relies on newspaper accounts, court and business records, correspondence, and personal interviews with family, friends, and associates to render a portrait of one of the most successful and colorful, yet elusive, businessmen of his day.
Book Synopsis Tax Law and the Environment by : Roberta F. Mann
Download or read book Tax Law and the Environment written by Roberta F. Mann and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tax Law and the Environment: A Multidisciplinary and Worldwide Perspective takes a multidisciplinary approach to explore the ways how tax policy can is used solve environmental problems throughout the world, using a multi-jurisdictional and multidisciplinary approach. Environmental taxation involves using taxes to impose a cost on environmentally harmful activities or tax subsidies to provide preferred tax treatment to more sustainable alternatives to those harmful activities. This book provides a detailed analysis of environmental taxation, with examples from around the world. As the extraction, processing and use of energy use resources is has been a major cause of environmental harm, this book explores the taxation and subsidization of both fossil fuels and renewable energy. Its analysis of the past, present, and future potential of environmental taxation will help policymakers move economies toward sustainability, as well as and informing students, academics, and citizens about tax solutions for pressing environmental issues.
Book Synopsis The Gambler's Apprentice by : H. Lee Barnes
Download or read book The Gambler's Apprentice written by H. Lee Barnes and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gambler’s Apprentice tells the story of a teenage boy growing up in Texas during desperate times. Willy, wise and capable beyond his years, learns the gambler’s trade and experiences adventures that demand quick wits—and sometimes violent actions. This is a multilayered story, full of Old West motifs such as cattle-rustling and gunfights along with more modern twists. Starting with a cattle-rustling scheme involving his father, Willy embarks on a life of crime early, eventually landing in a Laredo jail for shooting a man. During his incarceration he meets Sonny Archer, an itinerant gambler, who teaches Willy how to be a cardsharp. Upon his release, Willy roams the country, honing his new talent and getting into more trouble. During his time in New Orleans, Willy even winds up in a confrontation with an Italian crime ring. While all these adventures mold Willy into a clever card player and a masterful fortune-hunter, his grand ambition to be a professional gambler is thwarted when the influenza epidemic strikes. Willy is forced to return home to his family’s Texas ranch, where he faces the most challenging test of his young life and begins to prove that he is far more than simply an apprentice.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :854 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (56 download)
Book Synopsis A Study and Investigation of the National Defense Program in Its Relation to Small Business by : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
Download or read book A Study and Investigation of the National Defense Program in Its Relation to Small Business written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Conduct a Study and Survey of the National Defense Program in Its Relation to Small Business of the United States Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1620 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (18 download)
Book Synopsis A Study and Investigation of the National Defense Program in Its Relation to Small Business by : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Conduct a Study and Survey of the National Defense Program in Its Relation to Small Business of the United States
Download or read book A Study and Investigation of the National Defense Program in Its Relation to Small Business written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Conduct a Study and Survey of the National Defense Program in Its Relation to Small Business of the United States and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 1620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wildcatter written by Jack Donahue and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1979 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of Michel Halbouty in Texas Oil Fields.
Book Synopsis Petroleum Agreement with Grreat Britain and Northern Ireland by : United States. Congress. Foreign Relations Committee
Download or read book Petroleum Agreement with Grreat Britain and Northern Ireland written by United States. Congress. Foreign Relations Committee and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Power Failure written by Mimi Swartz and published by Currency. This book was released on 2004-03-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “They’re still trying to hide the weenie,” thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company’s creditors and cautioning them against a rash judgment. “Don’t assume that there is a smoking gun.” Sherron knew Enron well enough to know that the company was in extreme spin mode… Power Failure is the electrifying behind-the-scenes story of the collapse of Enron, the high-flying gas and energy company touted as the poster child of the New Economy that, in its hubris, had aspired to be “The World’s Leading Company,” and had briefly been the seventh largest corporation in America. Written by prizewinning journalist Mimi Swartz, and substantially based on the never-before-published revelations of former Enron vice-president Sherron Watkins, as well as hundreds of other interviews, Power Failure shows the human face beyond the greed, arrogance, and raw ambition that fueled the company’s meteoric rise in the late 1990s. At the dawn of the new century, Ken Lay’s and Jeff Skilling's faces graced the covers of business magazines, and Enron’s money oiled the political machinery behind George W. Bush’s election campaign. But as Wall Street analysts sang Enron’s praises, and its stock spiraled dizzyingly into the stratosphere, the company’s leaders were madly scrambling to manufacture illusory profits, hide its ballooning debt, and bully Wall Street into buying its fictional accounting and off-balance-sheet investment vehicles. The story of Enron’s fall is a morality tale writ large, performed on a stage with an unforgettable array of props and side plots, from parking lots overflowing with Boxsters and BMWs to hot-house office affairs and executive tantrums. Among the cast of characters Mimi Swartz and Sherron Watkins observe with shrewd Texas eyes and an insider’s perspective are: CEO Ken Lay, Enron’s “outside face,” who was more interested in playing diplomat and paving the road to a political career than in managing Enron’s high-testosterone, anything-goes culture; Jeff Skilling, the mastermind behind Enron’s mercenary trading culture, who transformed himself from a nerdy executive into the personification of millennial cool; Rebecca Mark, the savvy and seductive head of Enron’s international division, who was Skilling’s sole rival to take over the company; and Andy Fastow, whose childish pranks early in his career gave way to something far more destructive. Desperate to be a player in Enron’s deal-making, trader-oriented culture, Fastow transformed Enron’s finance department into a “profit center,” creating a honeycomb of financial entities to bolster Enron’s “profits,” while diverting tens of millions of dollars into his own pockets An unprecedented chronicle of Enron’s shocking collapse, Power Failure should take its place alongside the classics of previous decades – Barbarians at the Gate and Liar’s Poker – as one of the cautionary tales of our times.
Book Synopsis Romance of American Petroleum and Gas by : Alfred Russell Crum
Download or read book Romance of American Petroleum and Gas written by Alfred Russell Crum and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of Proceedings of the American Mining Congress by : American Mining Congress
Download or read book Report of Proceedings of the American Mining Congress written by American Mining Congress and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
