Many of the fields where production occurred in the early stages of the united states oil industry, which was all on shore. Most of our operation is underground. You can go right on farming if you should hit oil. If you get the standard royalty, one eighth of every barrel. But tell me how we got into offshore drilling to begin with.
An energy expert explains why offshore oil spills keep happening and whether they’ll ever stop.
Today’s show was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Cristian Ayala and Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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