WASHINGTON For the past two decades, the deep waters of the world’s oceans have been the “final frontier” for the oil and gas industry as they raced to drill deeper, faster and farther out for resources and profits. Now, with 11 men killed and an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil spilled, it’s clear that some operators were taking too many gambles in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Those days of big risks are over. In the four months since the Deepwater Horizon...
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