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Troubles Run Deep on Gulf Oil Platform
The day after massive Hurricane Dennis churned through the Gulf of Mexico in July 2005, a commercial vessel traveling past BP PLC’s hulking Thunder Horse oil platform radioed the bad news to its owner: The platform’s top deck was listing into the water.
When a landing party from BP arrived at the platform two days later, [...]
Oil, gas leases near trout stream’s headwaters
Rancher Dick Gosman remembers the last time energy companies showed interest in drilling in Beaverhead County.
It was the early 1980s and companies punched a number of test wells throughout the southern end of the county. But that was the extent of it.
