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Jul. 23, 2010
Understanding Oil Geology
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| With response teams still working to seal the Deepwater Horizon well, we'll take a look at the geology of undersea oil fields. What makes some locations better drill sites than others? |
Produced by Annette Heist, Senior Producer
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Roger Anderson
Con Edison Senior Scholar at the Center for Computational Learning Systems
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Columbia University
New York, New York
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