Since the 1980s, the industry has used some of the world's most sophisticated technologies to extract oil from increasingly deeper depths of the Gulf. But, according to reports, the rig didn't have the state-of-the-art remote-control shutoff switch used in Norway and Brazil as a safeguard against underwater spills. In the United States, oil companies successfully argued against a federal effort to mandate the switch, arguing that a catastrophic crude oil spill in the Gulf was extremely unlikely.
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