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October 27, 2011

Fretting Over "Bottom Tier" Oil Companies

L. Steffy, Houston Chronicle


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It's official today, government regulators approved BP’s plan to drill its first deepwater well in the Gulf of Mexico’s since last year’s Macondo disaster, which killed 11 crew members aboard the Deepwater Horizon. The plan allows BP to immediately begin drilling at its Kaskida site, about 190 miles off the Louisiana coast. . .

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