Reveals for the first time the story of how a few dozen oilmen stole up to 20 million barrels from the East Texas Oil Field. This slant-hole story is a significant piece of Texas history, and it must be told before no one is left to tell it.
A chemistry professor and oil and gas executive discusses the slant-hole drilling scandal of the 1960s in Texas, explaining "how politics, geology, money, and human nature ocmbined to create a ... Texan scandal and how it was finally broke up"--Back cover.