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BP’s deepwater drilling continues

JAN 20, 2011
Physics Today
New York Times : The ink is barely dry on the White House commission’s investigative report into the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico, but deepwater drilling seems to be continuing to expand around the world. The New York Times‘s Clifford Krauss writes in his Green blog about how BP has now secured permits to drill in the Bight basin in the south of Australia, and will go substantially deeper than the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico.
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