Oh, yeah. Every oil company in the world. In the long run, they are all family on this.
So good a brain collection that the only thing Chu's hotshots could offer them was the Gamma Ray Imager.
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Hundreds of engineers from universities, rival oil companies and the federal government immediately went back to work, in shifts lasting 13 hours or more.
"Anyone who we think could make a difference, we brought in," said Kent Wells, BP's senior vice president for exploration and production.
Then came the "dream team" that President Obama had ordered his Nobel-winning energy secretary, Steven Chu, to assemble: out-of-the-box thinkers including a nuclear physicist, a pioneer on Mars drilling techniques, an MIT professor whose research interests include "going faster on my snowboard," an expert on the hydrogen bomb, and a controversial astrophysicist who was later booted over a past essay defending homophobia. |
