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Dispatch From the Oil Frontier - Popular Mechanics

Science – In the oil patch, the roughnecks say, it doesn't rain and it doesn't get dark; might as well be Vegas. I'm in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico's Alaminos Canyon, on a giant piece of floating steel and aluminum called the Noble Clyde Boudreaux. And here, middle of the night though it may be, the Boudreaux is lit up like an interstate truck stop

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