He had to recruit a management team, which in this case was comprised of a water driller named "Uncle Billy" plus his two sons.

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Petrobras has 200 oil drilling blocs in the Gulf of Mexico, and it was banned from drilling just as every other deep water driller in the Gulf following the BP oil spill last year.

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Petrobras is majority owned by the Brazilian government and is a major deep water oil driller.

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Shafts from old mines lie under the region, said Butler County commissioner William L. McCarrier, who worked as a water well driller in the area during the 1970s.

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