Last week in London, John Schiller of Energy XXI, a junior partner in the well, said that they were back below 30, 000 feet.

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As just one example, last week I spoke with John Schiller, chief executive of offshore driller Energy XXI, who used to drill a lot of deepwater wells when he was with Ocean Energy and Devon Energy.

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