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more offshore oil drilling. is there something about rig wes should know about? obviously complicated pieces of equipment that are working in very dangerous environments. this particular rig is one of the newer ones and certainly the company trans ocean, the biggest driller and they ve got a pretty good record of safety. the rigs themselves, it s dangerous, dirty work. they re working in extreme conditions with extreme pressure. any time you stick a pipe into the earth thousands of feet, you re dealing with a lot of pressure. of course, the hydro carbon. just by the nature, it s dangerous. this is a newer unit. there are a lot of older out there on the ocean as well. there s also a lot of investment in the last five, ten years or so and new equipment. one thing to take an issue with my description of it, i ve spent time on a rig and they have a lot of safety briefings. every shift gets a safety briefing. they ve got firefighting crews on every rig because they know that help is not

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