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Thousands Attend

Oil Industry Expo

In Lafayette, La.

The Ninth Biennial Louisiana

Gulf Coast Oil Exposition conclud- ed after four days of buying, sell- ing, explaining and demonstrating the equipment and services that keep the vast United States oil in- dustry working.

Thousands of industry represen- tatives, supervisors, foremen and engineers came to see first-hand the goods and services of the 325 participating exhibitors. For four days in near perfect weather, the oil industry was on display.

Visitors had the opportunity to view practically every type of equipment and service introduced in the past several years. Displays ranged from down hole equipment to helicopters and aircraft and to the most unique and advanced in offshore workover rigs for multiple completion platforms.

The attendance at the 1971

LAGCOE by industry personnel was in excess of all expectations.

A large international marketer in the oil industry commented: "We have never 'been at a show where there was such a large attendance of oil industry people, including supervisors, foremen and engineers, that we were interested in seeing."

Industry personnel attending the exposition found what they came to see. A questionnaire circulated among exhibitors on the last day produced information as to sales made during the four days. Of those responding, many elaborated as to their result by comment rath- er than a hard dollar figure. Six- teen exhibitors listed sales figures totaling $1,105,775 for 250 various products and services.

LAGCOE general chairman, Keith Lindley of Sun Oil Company, takes a turn inside the Whittaker Corporation's survival cap- sule. LAGCOE Queen, Miss Becky Brown, decided to stay outside and peek in the portals.

Keith Lindley, general show chairman, and Gene Fullen, co- chairman, greatly appreciated the comments of exhibitors. One large

U.S. manufacturing concern that sells a product utilized in the in- dustry and who was a first time exhibitor, commented, "We have received more help and coopera- tion from the people of LAGCOE than any show we have ever at- tended." Still another large oil in- dustry manufacturing company's representative said, "Our cost for coming here was repaid many times over."

The events surrounding the seri- ous business of exploring the prod- ucts and services of today and to- morrow industry-wide at the show grounds included a barbecue pre- pared by the Chuck Wagon Gang of Odessa, Texas; a Cajun shrimp boil; a queen's coronation ball and breakfast, a press party and, of a more serious nature, a luncheon sponsored by the Greater Lafayette

Chamber of Commerce in coopera- tion with PESA, featuring as speak- er the Honorable J. Gilles Masse,

Minister, Department of Natural

Resources, Government of the

Province of Quebec, Canada.

B.R. McNulty, president of

PESA, urged the industry to tell its story to governmental leaders and the public at large. To com- municate the facts of the oil in- dustry as they are—not as special interest groups would have it.

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