As reported by Tsvetana Paraskova on Oilprice.com , oil companies are turning to robots and drones to perform dangerous tasks in harsh offshore environments. "Those gadgets save costs and improve performance," she wrote, and enhance safety precautions "by reducing the exposure of people to dangerous tasks and situations." ("Robots And Drones Are Changing The Offshore Oil Industry," 6 May) Ms Paraskova, who writes for the US consulting firm Divergente LLC, noted that, since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, "no company is keener than BP" to show that it takes safety extremely seriously.
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