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The Great Texas Oil Heist (Paperback)
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It was 1946. World War II was over. The thieves went to work. They
drilled deviated wells from outside the East Texas Oil Field back
into the oil that remained after 16 years of production. This was
the oil field that supplied the oil needed for an Allied victory in
1945. The deviators continued their nefarious activity until an
angry and aggressive attorney general led his posse of lawmen,
including the Texas Rangers, into East Texas to stop the theft and
administer Texas justice. I tell this story on the basis of 35
years of research and my father's well files. Yes, he drilled six
of the nearly 400 deviated wells. I first learned of the so-called
Slant-Hole scandal in late spring 1962. That's when colleagues in
my research group at the University of California at Berkeley
accosted me with the morning's San Francisco Chronicle. They knew
my father was an East Texas oilman. One pointed to an article
reporting that oilmen in East Texas had drilled 'deviated' oil
wells from beyond the known productive limits of the East Texas Oil
Field to steal oil.'Has your dad been stealing oil?' 'Of course,
not!' I replied. I had known nothing of the illicit activity until
that morning. Then a report in TIME further exposed the East Texas
oil scandal that had erupted in my hometown of Longview. Here,
then, for the first time, I reveal the story of how a few dozen
oilmen stole up to 20 million barrels from the East Texas Oil
Field. I am eager to share what I have learned and to tell the
truth of the slant-hole scandal-the circumstances that made it
inevitable, who did what to whom, and how the matter eventually
reached its conclusion. Much of what I reveal in this book has been
the tightly guarded secrets of the families of the participants so
that grandchildren can be kept from knowledge of granddaddy's
scandalous behavior. But most of what I reveal here lies barely
hidden in the public record. The slant-hole story is a significant
piece of Texas history, and it must be told before no one is left
to tell it.
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