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“It’s like a taxi that stops but the meter keeps going.” OLA MORTEN AANESTAD, Statoil vice president, on one of the stranded rigs under a moratorium that halted virtually all deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010

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  • OLA MORTEN AANESTAD,
  • vice president of Statoil, on one of the stranded rigs that is under the moratorium halting nearly all deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
Photo: Gerald Herbert / AP | Source: The New York Times