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Non-essential crew were airlifted off Stena Spey, east of Aberdeen, after it was battered by severe winds.

Equinor (operator) and ExxonMobil, Petrogal Brasil and Pré-sal Petróleo SA (PPSA) have decided to develop phase one of the Bacalhau field in the Brazilian pre-salt Santos area. The investment is approx. 8 billion USD.

I'm here with marylandry who is leading the area response down here and my deputy admiral. >> i should have known better. of course, you'd be out there and you'd be on a drilling unit. you're never sitting in an office in washington. forgive us for that mistake, admiral. there you are on the drilling unit. tell us exactly what that drilling unit is doing. >> this is the second unit that will be put into place to drill a second well and that's a risk mitigator in case there's a problem with the first one. it's a step that bp has taken to make sure that we get some final closure on it by capping...

Oil slick is still sitting out there, as you know, in the gulf right now and the coast guard is on point for this, keeping an eye on bp and the clean up efforts and also helping lead that investigation in the gulf. coast guard commander admiral fatalen has briefings morning, afternoon and night and we've been lucky to get him to call and he joins me now from washington. let me start by asking you, we're seeing the booms and we're seeing the oil and we're still seeing this massive slick. what are you doing right now to try and skim that oil and get it off the water because we haven't seen fires...

You can yank them one way and it shuts everything down here. we are actually on board the rig. to my right is the driller. that's the drilling unit. he, too, has a hands on ability to shut down. we're going to take you over there right now: you are looking at a prospect well. we are only in 40 feet of water that is the blow out protector itself. you saw the control over across the deck. what's this dill -- this do. >> when the driller pulls the switch the rams close shut off the well. >> if you look at the pistons, they will basically close down everything, making sure nothing comes up to the ...