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The Legacy of Oil Exploration
The chapter delves into the family history of oil exploration, detailing the involvement of the speaker's grandfather in the oil industry from shallow to deeper well drilling. It highlights the transition to private company status in the 1950s and contrasts the speaker's grandfather as a successful oil producer with the more risk-taking 'wildcatters' of the time.