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To: GST who wrote (145203)8/11/2002 6:49:43 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph  Read Replies (2) of 164684
 
"

This Oil's Domestic, but It's Deep and It's Risky
By NEELA BANERJEE

BOARD THE MARLIN PLATFORM, IN THE GULF OF MEXICO -- About 100 miles southeast of the tattered Louisiana coastline, Marlin rises like a fortress from the flat sea, a gas flare at the tip of a boom fluttering like its banner.

Marlin is BP's most profitable deep-water platform in the region, producing enough natural gas and oil to power a city of one million people. But as solid and steady as it looks, Marlin is not rooted to the ocean floor. Instead, the whole platform — the width of two football fields — floats in 3,400 feet of water on four thick columns linked by pontoons and tethered to the ocean floor with steel cables."

nytimes.com
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