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- <title>
- Feb. 12, 1990: Business Notes:Energy
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Feb. 12, 1990 Scaling Down Defense
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 53
- Business Notes
- ENERGY
- How Grim Was My Valley
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Infested with terrorists, bandits and drug thugs, Peru's
- Upper Huallaga Valley would seem to be one of the least
- hospitable places on earth for a major U.S. company to go in
- search of resources. Yet Mobil Oil is hard at work on a $107
- million project to explore for oil and natural gas in the
- energy-rich jungle region, which happens to produce nearly half
- the coca leaves used to supply Americans with cocaine.
- </p>
- <p> "If you are looking to find large new reserves," explains
- Mobil spokesman John Lord, "you simply have to go to the more
- remote regions of the world." However, Lord noted, "we don't
- even know if substantial oil reserves exist in the region, let
- alone if we're going to start drilling soon."
- </p>
- <p> Peru, which would receive some 45% of the oil revenues from
- a Mobil find, agreed to provide security for company crews and
- to fly them to remote sites aboard military helicopters. Peru
- furnished similar services to Occidental Petroleum, which
- recently completed a yearlong exploration of a less dangerous
- region about 120 miles to the east. Occidental is currently
- evaluating its findings.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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