Deepwater's Potential Fits with Dominion's Bullisb-on-gas Strategy

摘要

If the founders of the company that eventually became Dominion Resources - George Washington and James Madison - could only see it now. Those early U.S. leaders had a clear vision of how to govern a large, fast-growing country, but they could not have dreamed of the technological and social advances that vision would drive. A little more than 40 years after Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in an electrical storm in 1752 - only 19 years after the 13 American colonies declared their independence -the history of what endures today as a leading energy company began. It would still be more than half a century before Col. Drake drilled the first commercial oil discovery. It would be close to 150 years after Dominion's corporate roots were established before natural gas was considered a usable product, not a nuisance. Oil and gas development out of the sight of land in the Gulf of Mexico also was a century and a half into the future.