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• Chevron
  The Chevron website offers information about the company's operations, technology, and brands. This links to a press release the company issued when it started construction on the Tahiti Field. VP of Deepwater Exploration/Projects, Paul Siegele, is one of Chevron's personnel interviewed in Part 1 of Diane Eastabrook's series.
• "Deep Water: Where the Energy Is" (PDF Document)
  This is an article published by the Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service. It explains the process of deep water drilling and also contains some graphics to help readers visualize that process.
• Oppenheimer & Co.
  Oppenheimer & Co. is an investment and financial services firm. This links to information about the company's equity research division, which is home to oil & gas analyst Fadel Gheit. Gheit is interviewed in Part 1 of Diane Eastabrook's series.
• The Politics of Oil
  This December 2004 report was produced by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit and non-partisan organization "dedicated to producing original, responsible investigative journalism on issues of public concern." While some of the report focuses on a specific bill making its way through Congress, is also offers extensive background information on the business of offshore oil drilling.
• Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
  The SPE is a professional organization offering "technical information related to oil and gas exploration and production.
• Subsea 7
  Subsea 7 is a Scotland-based firm that contracts its ships and remote operated vehicles to firms involved in deepwater construction and drilling. Subsea 7 ROV Engineer Michael Stokes is interviewed in Part 1 of Diane Eastabrook's series.
• Transocean
  Transocean is an offshore drilling company. It operates the drill ship that's working the Tahiti Field. Transocean Rig Manager Michael Acuff is interviewed in Part 1 of Diane Eastabrook's series.

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• Baker Hughes
  Baker Hughes develops technology used in oil and natural gas drilling and production. Baker Hughes Deepwater Operations Manager, Gerry Authement, is interviewed in Part 2 of Diane Eastabrook's series.
• Center for Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering (CPGE)
  CPGE is based at the University of Texas at Austin. The center is focused on research related to oil and gas drilling engineering. A number of the center's technical research reports are available online.
• Chevron
  The Chevron website offers information about the energy company's operations, technology, and brands. Chevron Geophysicist Barney Issen is interviewed in Part 2 of Diane Eastabrook's series.
• Drilling Engineering Association
  The Drilling Engineering Association "was formed to advance new technology related to drilling wells." The website includes information about its projects, its members, and more.
• Halliburton
  Halliburton is an energy services firm that, among other things, manufactures products used in oil & gas drilling. Halliburton's Manager of Geoscience, Nicholas Purday is interviewed in Part 2 of Diane Eastabrook's series.
• Mustang Engineering
  Mustang is a private company that provides engineering design and project management services to various industrial industries, including the oil & natural gas industry. One of the company's upstream project managers, Gary Wilkes, is interviewed in Part 2 of Diane Eastabrook's series.
• Offshore Technology Conference (OTC)
  OTC is an annual conference and tradeshow dedicated to developing "offshore resources in the fields of drilling, exploration, production, and environmental protection." For a fee, subscribers can read papers presented at conferences since 1969.

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• Chevron
  The Chevron website offers information about the energy company's operations, technology, and brands. Chevron Government & Public Affairs Advisor Mickey Driver is interviewed in Part 3 of Diane Eastabrook's report.
• Department of the Interior
  This links to the U.S. Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service homepage for the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Region. The website offers data about deepwater drilling as well as information about issues impacting the industry.
• Halliburton
  Halliburton is an energy services firm that, among other things, manufactures products used in oil & gas drilling. Halliburton's Senior VP Tim Probert is interviewed in Part 3of Diane Eastabrook's series.
• Mustang Engineering
  Mustang is a private company that provides engineering design and project management services to various industrial industries, including the oil & natural gas industry. The company's VP of Upstream Business A.J. Cortez is interviewed in Part 3 of Diane Eastabrook's series.
• "Top 100 US Oil and Gas Fields" (PDF Document)
  This document was produced by the U.S. Energy Information Agency. It offers statistics about U.S. oil fields, including their location and size. The statistics are based on 2005 data.
• Transocean
  Transocean is an offshore drilling company that provides drill ships, rigs, units, and submersibles for deep water operations. Transocean CEO Robert Long is interviewed in Part 3 of Diane Eastabrook's series.
• "USGS World Energy Assesment" (PDF Document - large size)
  This links to the map navigation page for the U.S. Geological Survey's "World Energy Assesment." Click on any of the regions in the map to learn more about its geology and its energy output.

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• NBR Field Producer Hart Billings accompanied Diane Eastabrook and videographer Dan Morris on their trip to the drill ship working Chevron's Tahiti Field. Hart took along a digital camera and captured some behind-the-scenes images. Click on the link below to explore a gallery of these images.

• Deep Oil: Behind-the-Scenes Gallery