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Video: Installing the World's Deepest Drilling Oil Rig
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The world's deepest-drilling oil platform is maneuvering into place in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell's Perdido oil platform will drill for petroleum more than 8,000 feet below the water's surface. Even though oil prices have dipped from their all-time highs earlier this summer, they are still far higher than at any time since the early 1980s. That's made deep ocean drilling, which is considerably more expensive than most other recovery techniques, a viable enterprise. The new platform employs the 'spar' design, which means that it's actually floating in the water, anchored to the ocean floor by enormous cables.
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