OTHER NEWS - Oct. 17, 1991

Team Hopes to Find Huge Supply of Non-Fossil Gas: A U.S.-Swedish venture drilling in granite beneath a fir forest believes that it has found proof of what might be a vast new global energy source--non-fossil gas and oil. The team, drilling in the Siljan resort area 125 miles northwest of Stockholm, is testing a U.S. astrophysicist’s theory that the Earth holds profitable energy reserves--primarily gas--that did not develop from the usual fossils. Oil at the site began flowing to the surface a week ago, a full five years after operations first began. It was only a few hundred gallons, but triumphant project leaders, who have been ridiculed by the scientific Establishment, hail it as a breakthrough.