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" ... "Conservationist" then meant an advocate of strong state and federal regulations to force drillers to adhere to responsible engineering standards to guarantee the maximum amount of oil could be recovered. Fierce political battles raged between conservationists and their allies in the Roosevelt administration under Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes on the one side, and independent oilmen on the other. Nothing was resolved as cleanly and as neatly as the President, in his address to the nation today, makes the Clean Power Plan sound. ... "
" ... Back then oilmen yawned at the notion of drilling off of Virginia. Before the government would even consider putting blocks up for lease, the Dept. of the Interior was required to conduct a multi-year study to determine that potential drilling wouldn't hurt any sea critters up to 50 miles offshore. ... "
" ... Entrepreneurs also began to emerge. John Williams and his wife, Loula, built a confectionary store and erected the opulent Dreamland Theater. Simon Berry built a private transportation network of Model T. Fords and buses, which transported residents through Greenwood and all the way to downtown Tulsa. Berry soon began chartering planes for Tulsa’s increasingly wealthy oilmen. ... "
" ... The transformative move again distinguishes her from American peers. With open-mindedness and flexibility, Hollub is a decided contrast with “the typical oil guy,” said Alisa Lukash, a senior shale analyst at the consultancy Rystad Energy. Famous oilmen like Harold Hamm were often less interested in applying new technology than leveraging geopolitical connections or aggressively lobbying governments, Lukash said. ... "