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Liz on October 5, 2005 - 8:14pm

As a non-technical newbie I find this puzzling because, to the extent deepwater oil is in the GOM, I would think the hurricanes (and prospect of more intense ones) would tend to make this resource cost prohibitive to expand access to.

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Dave Cohen on October 5, 2005 - 10:12pm

Welcome aboard, Liz. I think many would agree with you here that there is far more financial risk in investing in GOM deepwater drilling than previously thought.

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