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  1. By etson on May 19, 2010 3:42 PM

    Plugging a hole nearly a mile deep is like pushing on a string. It might not make an accident more likely, but it surely makes fixing things once one happens more difficult by magnitudes.

  2. Etson;

    I don’t agree with some of the points you just made.

    -We have not depleted our reserves closer to shore. Some areas have just been barred from drilling since the backlash caused by the Santa Barbara oilspill many years ago.

    -The level of engineering required for these deeper rigs, in all aspects (drilling, rigging, accident recivery) is orders of magnituse more difficult when one gets below about 2000 meters in depth.

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