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The Battalion
Monday, September28,
Russian experts visit A&M
Specialists examine American petroleum technology
By MACK HARRISON
BILLYMORAN/Thc Battalion
Visiting Russians stand with Americans at the Delta Drilling Co.’s Site 63.
Reporter of THE BATTALION
A group of Russian petroleum experts visiting
Texas A&M toured a drilling rig near Wellborn Sun
day as a part of their effort to learn more about
American petroleum technology.
The delegation, from Urengoi in northwest
Siberia, came to A&M at the invitation of the Center
for Russian Petroleum Studies in the petroleum engi
neering department. Siberia contains some of the
largest gas fields in the world, with over 500 trillion
cubic feet of natural gas reserves.
Dr. Eustakhy Nanivsky spoke to petroleum engi
neering graduate students last week about develop
ment of the natural gas fields in west Siberia.
Nanivsky, a professor and author, has worked in the
Siberian gas fields for the past 26 years.
Nanivsky said American and Russian companies
and universities will continue to cooperate in devel
oping petroleum fields in the former Soviet Union.
He said both countries have much to gain.
"We [...] visited several labs at
A&M and were pleasantly
surprised with the equipment.
Also we were impressed with the
level of the professors who work
there."
-Dr. Eustakhy Nanivsky,
professor and author
"We have managed to learn a lot of interesting
things about Texas A&M University and your educa
tional system," Nanivsky said through an interpreter.
"But we in Russia also have strong points. We could
enrich each other."
Don Ellison, company representative for Global
Natural Resources, said his company wants to work
with Russian businesses to develop gas fields in the
region.
Dr. Richard A. Startzman, a petroleum engineer
ing professor, said Siberia presents a great opportu
nity for American petroleum companies. He said the
petroleum engineering department hopes to help
American businesses work with their Russian coun
terparts in managing the reserves.
"It's a new frontier for Americans, but it's already
established for the Russians," Startzman said.
See Drilling/Page 8
MADD protests lad
of jail sentencing foi
Texas DWI offenders
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON— A decade after
Texas passed mandatory sentenc
ing rules for those convicted of
drunken driving, the state has be
gun to substitute community ser
vice for jail time.
That change, supporters of
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
say, has watered down the seri
ousness of a deadly crime.
"They, in essence, have wiped
out an entire decade of MADD's
goals for punishment of DWI of
fenders," Vena Cronin of Hous
ton's MADD chapter said.
"To think that we have lost the
punishment for DWI by accident,
that thought is gonna stay with
me a long time."
In a copyright story Sunday,
The Houston Post reported that
the Texas Legislature's passage of
House Bill 93 in the last session
has allowed more lenient sentenc
ing of DWI offenders in the last
year.
House B\U 93 received consid
erable news coverage during the
last session, but virtually all of the
attention was focused on provi
sions that called for expansion of
the overcrowded Texas prison
system. Little was said about the
portion of the bill that affected
drunk drivers.
Since 1983, DWI offenders who
were given probation for addi
tional violations were required to
spend at least three days in jail for
a second offense, 10 days for a
third offense and 30 days for
causing serious bodily injury.
Included in the fine print of
House Bill 93, however, was an
amendment to the Texas Code of
Criminal Procedure that gave
judges the power to allow con
victed drunk drivers on probation
to serve their mandatory jail time
by performing community ser
vice. Lawmakers and MADD sup
porters say they were unaware of
the changes until it was too late.
"Either they, too, didn't mi
stand what its implicationsw
or else they were supportm;
that change and didn't want!;
public about it," state Rep.f
Colbert, D-Houston, said of!!
colleagues in the Legislature.
Other legislators say they*
told before voting on the bill
it contained no chahgesint
way convicted criminals area
tenced.
"It may have beenputinfc
inadvertently," stateSenlj
Lyon, D-Rockwall, chairwi
the Senate Committee of Crim
Justice and a sponsor of the I
said. "It may nave been a rs
take, or it may have beenai;
tentional act on somebodti
part."
MADD officials said thechaij
will undermine their effort
DWI-related deaths intheUii
States decreased 9.9 percent
year from 22,083 in 1990to 19,1
in 1991. In Texas, DWI deaths!
creased 10.9 percent, from 1,8
in 1990 to 1,249 in 1991.
"Research shows punislm
in conjunction with rehabffl
has the most success in detenr
repeat offenders/' saidM
Duffield, director of specialpi
jects for the Texas Commisswii
Alcohol and Drug Abuse,
"Chances are it's not the!:
time he's driven drunk, Tos:
their hand and say, 'Goyoirt
ry way,' is not doing that pern:
good service," Duffield said.
But Carl Reynolds, staffdiif
tor of the Texas Commission
Punishment Standards, said
moving the mandatory jail pro
sion discourages offendersfr!
accepting probation because
could include DWI educate
fees and long periods of super
sion.
Some supporters of the chat
said it doesn't make sense fori
offender to lose his job as a res
of a jail sentence and conseque;
ly be unable to make restitufa,
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