The world is presently facing two energy problems in the medium to long term approach - climate change and peak oil. Compared to new discoveries, news about depleting oil fields is more in focus now. Major oil companies are going further into the ocean to dig deeper in their pursuit for fossil fuels and diffi-cult deep-water locations seem to be the norm for the exploration companies, increasing the costs of the operations and hence the costs of fossil fuel itself.
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