Shell has started pumping from the world’s deepest underwater oil field.

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By Katie HerzogSep 12, 2016, 2:19 pm137 pts
What could go wrong? The Stones field, 200 miles south of New Orleans and 1.8 miles beneath the water surface, is far deeper than the field tapped by the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded in 2010, killing 11 workers and spilling about 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The new project, the…

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