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A man once said that the harder he worked, the luckier he got. For some people, that has proven true. Persistence often makes the difference between success and failure. Some people see opportunity, make plans, and charge ahead. Others let life pass them by. Sidney Umsted saw an opportunity before many others realized it was there. His persistence led to him becoming the Father of the Smackover Oil Field, becoming the first to strike oil in one of the richest oil fields in the state in the 1920s. ....
Two companies received drilling permits from the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission last week for lithium brine wells in Lafayette County wildcat fields. ....
Saltwerk LLC, the ExxonMobile subsidiary that is drilling test wells for the potential production of lithium in South Arkansas, has received two new permits for wildcat locations in Columbia and ....