Thunder Bay Page #2
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- 1953
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and they're all going to
waste up in New Orleans.
Did you let me
do all that?
Why, Mr. MacDonald,
l've been trying to tell you,
l mean, this is precisely
what the board of directors
has been complaining about.
How much did all this
confidential information
cost you, Mr. Martin?
All of our
mustering-out pay.
Get the jewel box.
Now, so far,
nobody's been able to come
up with a drilling platform
that'll pass the specifications
of the insurance company.
Well, we've got
one right here.
Now, let's...
Let's say that this
is the floor of the Gulf.
Now here is the platform that
will do the trick for you.
Prefabricated templates,
built ashore
and brought out
to sea by barge,
and put on
the floor of the Gulf.
Now we anchor them
driven right down through
these verticals, like this.
Drive them down 10, 20,
30, 35 feet,
into the floor of the gulf,
makes it solid as a rock.
Now the insurance companies
have a big worry in this thing.
Storm damage.
Where's that history?
Here.
Here's a history of the Gulf's
storms from 1899 to 1945.
Now my platform
and the rig,
they're built to stand
Not the average, the worst
of any of these storms.
And the insurance companies
have okayed the plans.
You collected
all these figures?
You sort of took a lease on a
dream of mine, Mr. MacDonald.
l know that that Gulf
out there is hiding enough oil
to make an inland field
dry up in shame.
Johnny Gambi and l
can get it out for you,
if you'll just give us
the go-ahead.
What do you think, Rawlings?
Mr. MacDonald,
of course l'm not,
but if l were in your place, l'd go
along with the board of directors,
take the loss,
and proceed with much
more caution in the future.
Yeah, but why take the loss when l
can turn it into a profit for you?
Profit?
l had Rawlings
check your record, Martin.
We found the word "profit"
conspicuous by its total absence.
Well, yes, l've had a little
bad luck every once in a while.
And all
on offshore operations.
Well, lots of times you
can learn more from failure
than you can from success.
You ought to know that,
Mr. MacDonald.
You've done a lot of
wildcatting in your day.
Don't you
agree with me?
Fortunately, in my position,
l can forget my failures.
Let me see that list,
Rawlings.
l see.
1938, Mexican coast, failed.
Oh, yeah, well,
there's no
government cooperation.
There was sort of shaky
financing there, too, you know...
1939, Guatemala, failed.
Yeah.
Well, there's...
There was a revolution.
How are you gonna drill oil when
you got a revolution on your hands?
1940, Venezuela, failed.
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