Deep Gulf drilling thrives after BP spillBy early this year more rigs will be working in deepwater in the Gulf of Mexico than before the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010 Jonathan Fahey Associated Press Energy Writer
Two hundred miles off the coast of Texas, ribbons of pipe are reaching for oil and natural gas deeper below the ocean’s surface than ever before.
These pipes, which run nearly two miles deep, are connected to a floating Shell platform that is so remote they named it Perdido, which means “lost” in S....
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