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Originally Posted by dsvick
I didn't know that the field was big enough that they could have moved closer.
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That is because it isn't true. There are other reserves that could be tapped closer to shore, but to get this reserve, they have to drill where it is. Here's a Newsweek article about it from more than a year ago:
link.
And
here from the Washington Post in 2006.
The "oil field" isn't like a big lake of oil underground where you can get to all the oil from any location-- it is more like many
scattered puddles, where you drain on puddle then find and drain another, unconnected puddle. BP seemed to think this was a very good puddle.