Word: platform
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...Amazon rain forest would be halted. But environmentalists are still waiting for Collor to prove that his commitment to saving the Amazon is more than public relations. "Lutzenberger has not presented one significant change in internal policy," says Fabio Feldmann, the only Brazilian congressman elected on a green platform...
...failed to make the big strike they needed to salvage their collapsing financial empire. Conoco followed the Hunts and had more luck, finding sizable deposits at the * 535-m (1,760-ft.) level. The company, with Occidental and Texaco, spent $400 million to build the world's deepest production platform, and has been producing from 20 wells for about a year...
...equally huge project is Shell's $500 million Bullwinkle platform, 130 km (80 miles) off the Louisiana coast. Standing 162 stories high -- taller by 49 m (161 ft.) than Chicago's Sears Tower -- it looms like a gigantic iceberg in 412 m (1,353 ft.) of water, only its top-deck production facilities visible above the water. Chevron is planning a big project nearby. Southeast of New Orleans, Exxon is operating a 110-story platform, and a few miles away British Petroleum is erecting its own 100-story behemoth...
...current projects are only the beginning. "The real potential lies farther and deeper offshore," says Roger Abel, Conoco's general manager for production engineering. "The big easies have all been found." Shell is investing $1.3 billion to build and install a tension-leg platform some 411 km (255 miles) southeast of Houston that will retrieve oil from a world-record depth of 872 m (2,860 ft.). Called Auger, the giant is scheduled to begin producing from 32 wells in 1993. Shell has also drilled an exploratory well at a 2,300-m (7,500-ft.) depth, and Mobil...
Though the right-wing ideologues are not yet strong enough to destroy the Bush presidency, they are capable of inflicting political damage. Phillips and other conservatives, encouraged by the election of independent Walter Hickel as Governor of Alaska on an antitax platform last month, are organizing what they call the U.S. Taxpayers Party. Phillips concedes that the party lacks a "rallying point" so far. But the incipient revolt could drain off crucial Bush votes...