Saturday, July 01, 2006
The Oil Frontier
Don't expect the scarcity of fossil fuels to drive us toward alternative energy sources anytime soon: we're getting smarter about finding and extracting oil.
By Bryant Urstadt
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| The Discovery Deep Seas floats 190 miles south of New Orleans. (Courtesy of Paul Taggart.) |
The easy oil is gone. To get to the new oil, you board a yellow Bell 407 helicopter outside New Orleans and fly south, touching down 140 miles offshore, on a ship that's drilling holes in the seabed nearly a mile below.
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