Saturday Salen’s drilling manager Claude Whitehead (who has drilled a hundred producing wells and was the first to drill in the North Sea) and Salen’s geologist Marcello Reborn who has invested all his life savings on the Reed Bank drilling came to give me a sample of...
1976
August 3, 1976
Tuesday Trip to Palawan for the second oil discovery In five months In the Philippines in Sampaguita I of Salen-Amoco, Reed Bank. Arraignment of Ex. Sen. [Benigno] Aquino [Jr.].
July 29, 1976
I met Sultan Muhammad Jamalul Karim lII for practically the whole day. He accompanied Princess Tarhata [Alonto-Lucman] better known as the daughter of the Sultan of Sulu, Sultan Jamalul Kiram Putli Amilbangsa and the two brothers of Muhammad Jamalud, Ibrahim and...
July 30, 1976
Friday We have hit oil again!! At the Reed Bank by Salen and Amoco. At 7:00 PM the telephone call came to inform us that oil and gas started to flow at the drill ship Brinkerhof. It is 110 miles NW off the Palawan Coast. This changes the whole economic situation. This...
July 28, 1976
Wednesday Revealed the fact that before the proclamation of martial law I had to decide on the issue of whether to establish a revolutionary government and approve a “prescription list” of those to be eliminated as “obstacles to the revolution” or to continue with the...
July 26, 1976
Monday I followed up the instructions I issued last Friday on the field commanders being allowed to handle the problem of the Christian Left on their level. I have directed that we now study the calling a constituent assembly to amend the constitution to consider: The...
July 27, 1976
Tuesday Salen and Amoco at Reed Bank confirmed by electric log the estimate that 90% they have hit oil. They will bring up the oil by drill stem test on Friday the 30th of July. If we have hit oil, then the drilling is a back to back jackpot. And this makes the whole...
July 18, 1976
Sunday The Military Bases negotiating panel with Secs. [Carlos] Romulo and [Juan Ponce] Enrile and Sol. Gen. [Estelito] Mendoza, USec. [Amado] Inciong, BIR [Bureau of Internal Revenue] Com. [Efren] Plana and their staff reported to me at 1:00-1:30 that the Americans...
July 20, 1976
Tuesday We have to prepare to take the slack in construction (now occupying 20,000-30,000 laborers) of hotels by early 1977 because by then the jobs in hotel construction will be over. So the following have to be done. The new government center or centers, 200...
July 16, 1976
Friday The American panel has adopted an apparently uncompromising and immovable stand that the military facilities given for their use be “associated” with the Philippine bases. This is supposed to be the instructions from Washington. I have told the Philippine panel...