The story, "Wolverine Hills Espionage Scout", takes place in the remote, desolate forests of Northern Canada, However, such a story could easily have taken place in the bayous of Louisiana or any other area where oil and gas exploration is being conducted.
In the rough and tumble and sometimes unpredictable world of oil and gas exploration, there is a little known shadowy practice called "Oilfield Scouting". The more correct term would be "SPYING." Oilfield spying is the very definition of commercial espionage.
The author, L. Gordon Kesler, worked as an oilfield spy for twenty years and over that period of time he trained and employed sixteen highly skilled "scouts".
Wolverine Hills is a work of fiction. The situations and events are based on actual situations in the highly secretive world of "Oilfield Spying."
In the story "OPEC" has cut off all oil shipments to the U.S. due to the latest Middle East foreign policy coming out of Washington. To complicate matters, radical Islamic terrorists are on the rampage and are blowing up existing oil installations in every country throughout the Arab world.
With the shortage of oil, the West has made a decision to lift restrictions on federally protected lands.Two companies are in a position to acquire a huge block of formerly protected land that holds the potential for one of the most prolific discoveries in history.
A multinational company out of Houston and a small upstart group called Black Gold Resources are the two companies. Thirty thousand acres of land will be made available through a secret- bid process an established procedure put in place by the government.
The survival of both companies is dependent on the acquisition of the 30,000 acres. Therefore, neither is willing to gamble on being short of critical information when the time comes to submit their bids.
The decision is made by upper management of both companies to hire scouts, "SPIES", as their ace- in- the-hole. One of the companies goes farther and brings into play counter scouts.
In the end it is an action packed story where lives are in jeopardy and companies are destined to fail.
In the rough and tumble and sometimes unpredictable world of oil and gas exploration, there is a little known shadowy practice called "Oilfield Scouting". The more correct term would be "SPYING." Oilfield spying is the very definition of commercial espionage.
The author, L. Gordon Kesler, worked as an oilfield spy for twenty years and over that period of time he trained and employed sixteen highly skilled "scouts".
Wolverine Hills is a work of fiction. The situations and events are based on actual situations in the highly secretive world of "Oilfield Spying."
In the story "OPEC" has cut off all oil shipments to the U.S. due to the latest Middle East foreign policy coming out of Washington. To complicate matters, radical Islamic terrorists are on the rampage and are blowing up existing oil installations in every country throughout the Arab world.
With the shortage of oil, the West has made a decision to lift restrictions on federally protected lands.Two companies are in a position to acquire a huge block of formerly protected land that holds the potential for one of the most prolific discoveries in history.
A multinational company out of Houston and a small upstart group called Black Gold Resources are the two companies. Thirty thousand acres of land will be made available through a secret- bid process an established procedure put in place by the government.
The survival of both companies is dependent on the acquisition of the 30,000 acres. Therefore, neither is willing to gamble on being short of critical information when the time comes to submit their bids.
The decision is made by upper management of both companies to hire scouts, "SPIES", as their ace- in- the-hole. One of the companies goes farther and brings into play counter scouts.
In the end it is an action packed story where lives are in jeopardy and companies are destined to fail.
