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Identifier: e_cle_000383
Title: Report on SEDCO, Inc. and Subsidiaries, 1972-1977
Description: Report on SEDCO, Inc. and Subsidiaries, 1972-1977. The report discusses SEDCO, its profits and debts, and Clements involvement in the company. The report contains charts with the breakdown of net income by geographical area, long-term debt, and a financial summary.
Page Count: 4
Subject Name: SEDCO, Inc., Clements, William P., 1917-2011, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Subject Topic: Offshore oil well drilling
Time Period: "SecDef, 1972-1976", "Gubernatorial Campaign, 1977-1978"
Themebook Term(s): SEDCO

Identifier: e_cle_005994
Title: Newspaper clipping headlined, "Clements Deals on Hold," September 3, 1979
Description: Newspaper clipping headlined, "Clements Deals on Hold," by Garth Jones, Associated Press, in the Victoria Advocate, September 3, 1979, regarding William P. Clements, Jr.,'s separation from his private business while serving as Texas' governor.
Page Count: 3
Creator: Associated Press
Subject Name: Clements, William P., 1917-2011, SEDCO, Inc.
Subject Topic: State governments--Officials and employees, Offshore oil well drilling, Petroleum industry and trade
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): SEDCO, Ixtoc I oil spill

Identifier: e_cle_013009
Title: Letter from William P. Clements, Jr. to Isaac C. Kidd, Jr., November 9, 1977
Description: Letter from William P. Clements, Jr. to Isaac C. Kidd, Jr., November 9, 1977. Letter from William P. Clements, Jr. to Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, Jr. regarding a meeting on offshore oil rig security.
Page Count: 1
Creator: Clements, William P., 1917-2011
Contributor: Kidd, Isaac C., Jr.
Subject Name: United States. Navy, SEDCO, Inc.
Subject Topic: Offshore oil well drilling
Time Period: "Gubernatorial Campaign, 1977-1978"
Themebook Term(s): SEDCO

Identifier: e_cle_013005
Title: Letter from William P. Clements to Isaac C. Kidd, Jr., July 28, 1977
Description: Letter from William P. Clements to Isaac C. Kidd, Jr., July 28, 1977. William P. Clements, Jr. offers his advice on off-shore drilling rigs Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, Jr., Commander in Chief of the Atlantic and U.S. Atlantic Fleet, and urges him to come visit Dallas.
Page Count: 2
Creator: Clements, William P., 1917-2011
Contributor: Kidd, Isaac C., Jr.
Subject Name: SEDCO, Inc., Hammett, Dillard S., Harris, Janie, Carr, Kenneth Monroe, 1925-, United States. Navy
Subject Topic: Offshore oil well drilling, Terrorism
Time Period: "Gubernatorial Campaign, 1977-1978"
Themebook Term(s): SEDCO

Identifier: e_cle_014421
Title: Brief regarding SEDCO's Chinese Joint Venture, April 1985
Description: Brief regarding SEDCO's Chinese Joint Venture, April 1985. Describes joint venture between the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and Occidental to operate drilling vessels off the coast of China. A handwritten note at the bottom of the brief reads, "Anticipate a bright future [and] high potential BUT [...] 'History is the prologue of the Future'! We are prepared [and] we are proceeding with caution."
Page Count: 1
Subject Name: SEDCO, Inc., Chinese National Offshore Oil Corp.
Subject Topic: Petroleum, Petroleum industry and trade, Offshore oil industry, Offshore oil well drilling
Time Period: "White Interregnum, 1983-1986"
Themebook Term(s): SEDCO

Identifier: e_cle_013004
Title: Letter from Isaac C. Kidd, Jr. to William P. Clements, Jr., July 20, 1977
Description: Letter from Isaac C. Kidd, Jr. to William P. Clements, Jr., July 20, 1977. Letter from Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, Jr. to William P. Clements, Jr. regarding offshore drilling rigs and plans to regain control of a rig in the event of a take-over for ransom or political visibility.
Page Count: 1
Creator: Kidd, Isaac C., Jr.
Contributor: Clements, William P., 1917-2011
Subject Name: United States. Navy, SEDCO, Inc.
Subject Topic: Offshore oil well drilling
Time Period: "Gubernatorial Campaign, 1977-1978"
Themebook Term(s): SEDCO

Identifier: e_cle_000993
Title: Newspaper clipping headlined, "High court upholds ruling against Sedco," November 16, 1982
Description: Dallas Morning News clipping headlined, "High court upholds ruling against Sedco," November 16, 1982, on an $18.8 million settlement awarded by U.S. District Judge William Hanson of Iowa to the estate of Roy Carver to be paid by SIDCO inc., this ruling was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. Carver sued SEDCO for damages following SEDCO's misrepresentation of facts concerning investments off the coast of Qatar.
Page Count: 1
Creator: Engelberg, Stephen
Subject Name: Clements, Ben Gill, SEDCO, Inc.
Subject Genre: Newspapers
Subject Topic: Offshore oil industry, Offshore oil well drilling
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): SEDCO

Identifier: e_cle_013008
Title: Letter from Isaac C. Kidd, Jr. to William P. Clements, Jr., October 27, 1977
Description: Letter from Isaac C. Kidd, Jr., to William P. Clements, Jr., October 27, 1977, regarding a meeting on offshore oil rig security.
Page Count: 1
Creator: Kidd, Isaac C., Jr.
Contributor: Clements, William P., 1917-2011
Subject Name: United States. Navy, SEDCO, Inc., Crocker-Clements, Rita, 1931-
Subject Topic: Offshore oil well drilling
Time Period: "Gubernatorial Campaign, 1977-1978"
Themebook Term(s): SEDCO

Identifier: e_cle_013006
Title: Letter from Isaac C. Kidd, Jr. to William P. Clements, Jr. from Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, Jr., September 9, 1977
Description: Letter from Isaac C. Kidd, Jr. to William P. Clements, Jr. from Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, Jr., September 9, 1977. Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, Jr. of the U.S. Navy writes to William P. Clements, Jr. with questions about offshore oil rig vulnerability and defense against terrorist seizure of offshore oil rigs. Kidd references a meeting with Clements in New Orleans on October 21, 1977.
Page Count: 2
Creator: Kidd, Isaac C., Jr.
Contributor: Clements, William P., 1917-2011
Subject Name: SEDCO, Inc., United States. Navy, Carr, Kenneth Monroe, 1925-, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Subject Topic: Offshore oil well drilling, Terrorism
Time Period: "Gubernatorial Campaign, 1977-1978"
Themebook Term(s): SEDCO