What prices having pierced the $100-a-barrel mark, there's no avoiding talk of oil these days. The gooey black stuff gets major play this month at a conference devoted to pumping it safely from underwater wells, as 70,000 engineers and industry leaders from more than 110 countries spend four days in Houston discussing the future of energy and innovations in oil production.
-- Kate Rockwood

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