Two years after a blowout on BP?s Macondo well killed 11 men and triggered the largest oil spill in U.S. history, oil companies are again plying the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Forty-one deep-water rigs are in the gulf. The vast majority of them are drilling new holes or working over old ones, while the other behemoths are idle as they await work or repairs. A brand new rig ? the South Korean-built Pacific Santa Ana, capable of drilling to a depth of 7.5 miles ? is on its way to a Chevron well.
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