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				Futures Trading: The Fine Art of Managing Risk, or Shooting Craps National Petroleum News It's called the New York Merchantile Exchange, the Merc, the NYMEX, the energy futures market - during periods of price swings, heating oil marketers, refiners, crude oil producers and jobbers call it a lot of other names. The Wildcatters Dallas Times Herald Born at Spindletop in 1901, the tradition of the Texas wildcatter was nurtured over seas of oil at such places as Kilgore and Ranger, Longview and Iraan. Some, like Dad Joiner and H.L. Hunt guessed right and made fortunes - thousands of others guessed wrong and died poor. Yemen Oil Fuels Dallas Feud Dallas Times Herald This is how Hunt Oil Co. describes the vision leading a 1981 exploration foray into North Yemen that three years later resulted in the discovery of a major oil field and attracted worldwide attention for the Dallas company and its owner, Ray Hunt. But Jack Crichton, another Dallas oilman who has sued Hunt for a share of the vast oil deposits beneath the sands of the Red Sea nation, says he had that vision first in 1955. Putting Property To Work The Journal of Petroleum Marketing Once the province primarily of apartments and office buildings, the traditional Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) is now being viewed as an attractive way for some petroleum marketing and convenience store companies to enhance asset values and expand through acquisitions. The State Of Process Automation In Japan Control magazine After a decade of imitation and billions of dollars in investment, many of America's leading discrete manufacturers are giving up on Japanese-style robots, production line computers, quality circles, and just-in-time deliveries. General Motors and Whirlpool found that what works well for Japanese makers of automobiles, dishwashers, and auto parts doesn't always work for American manufacturers. The Coming of Windows NT Control magazine After thousands of beta tests, assorted unveilings, demonstrations, and missed delivery deadlines, the long-running dress rehearsal for the Windows NT operating system is finally over. The product has been delivered. The real testing has begun. At least the product was scheduled to have been delivered in the past month . Now process control engineers and consultants can join the professional second guessers to see if the most recent "operating system of the future," from Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft Corp., will be faster, stronger, and smarter where it counts: on the plant floor.