Originally posted at Facing South
Despite an army of reporters and officials investigating the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster, one item has curiously escaped much attention: Shell Oil is running a nearly identical "sister rig" in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, which may have the same design flaws that led to the current unfolding disaster.
The Deepwater Nautilus rig was built just a year after Deepwater Horizon, in the same shipyard for the same company implicated in the April 20th catastrophe. It's also drilling in the same Mississippi Canyon prospecting area of the Gulf where Horizon, the ill-fated rig being used by British Petroleum, met its demise.
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