TRIAL BY FIRE

摘要

Even the wildest Hollywood imagination would be strained to make up a disaster saga that tops the real 1970-71 winter crisis recorded by a documentary circulating privately among Alberta oil industry veterans. A just-the-facts tone heightens the drama of Killing the Most Northerly Blowout in the World. Soft-spoken engineer Len Maier likewise had no need to use hyperbole to rivet the attention of a full house when he showed the film to a recent luncheon of the Canadian Petroleum History Society at the Calgary Petroleum Club.