What I say is true. This rig drilled the deepest oil well in history. The question is why do we need such deep wells when we have so much oil on land in Alaska and elsewhere and in shallow waters everywhere?
Just like nuclear power, we extend ourselves to our technical limits in order to avoid having anything in anybody's backyard, and when it fails, the environmental kooks that forced us to extend ourselves to our technical limits are to blame, no ifs ands or buts.
Read about this rig:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon
Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible drilling rig (oil rig) built in 2001. The purpose of this rig was to drill oil wells deep underwater, moving from location to location, as needed. Once the drilling was complete, pumping production was handled by other equipment.
Deepwater Horizon was owned by Transocean and leased to BP through September 2013. In September 2009, it drilled the deepest oil well in history. Deepwater Horizon sank on April 22, 2010, as the result of an explosion two days earlier.