RPT-INSIGHT-In disaster's wake, BP doubles down on deepwater despite surging shale
June 27, 2017 at 07:00 AM EDT
THUNDER HORSE OIL PLATFORM, Gulf of Mexico, June 27 (Reuters) - A bout 300 BP workers commute 150 miles here by helicopter, from the Louisiana coast to a deep-sea drilling platform that can produce more oil in a day than a West Texas rig can pump in a year.