Clements was born in Dallas and worked as an oil driller for many years.
They probably need to hurry up and get there before the oil drillers.
He worked as a farmer, oil driller, and schoolteacher.
The few buildings you pass on a drive through the flat, dry West Texas land belong to oil drillers and ranchers.
He helped keep the oil drillers out of the Arctic refuge.
The son of an oil driller, he attended 19 different schools between first grade and sixth grade.
It could shorten shipping routes, for example, and expand the range of offshore oil drillers.
It is a nuisance that oil drillers, operating in areas where there are no pipelines, must burn off.
But if the section was declared a stream, the land could be owned outright by the oil drillers.
Despite some nods toward energy efficiency, it is essentially an oil driller's bill.