offshore technology roadmap for the ultra deepwater gulf of mexico us department energy november 2000 foreword goals enhancing america s security and providing diverse technologies future come together in it represents an uniquely american solution to current international challenges powering new economy administration identified meeting these as essential continued economic growth information age its hunger supply reliability infrastructure taxpayers own vast untapped oil gas resources underlying public lands waters western national labs posses ability develop solutions that can address key gaps private investment community has risk management tools necessary large cutting edge deployments like minerals service program royalty relief today will pay off reducing dependence on foreign application safe sustainable pro duction processes simply bringing assets is not enough bring costs down
