The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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i don't think the articles really contradict each other. Too much equivocation to call for that.

i have a friend who owns a small service company and he says his company was going to put some equipment on a deepwater rig in the GOM just after Thanksgiving. Whether or not it was going to get used soon is a different matter. For all i know there could be different flavors of permits, e.g. drilling operations that had been started prior to the DWH may have been allowed to restart but that is just wild-ass speculation on my part.