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Originally Posted by lynchie
What form is the oil in? Sands? Shale? Or is it actually a big pool of good old crude that no one noticed before?
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The oil lies some 4.5 miles beneath the ocean's surface. To reach it, Petrobras will have to run lines through 7,000 feet of water and then drill up to 17,000 feet through sand, rock, and a massive salt layer.