Using ever fancier technologies, the oil business is drilling in deeper waters, more difficult terrain and even in the Arctic (which, as global warming melts the polar ice cap, will perversely become the next great prize in oil).

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Getting off terra firma, similar technologies are also being deployed to help sailors navigate rough waters.

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Other competitors in the technology sector include: Waters (WAT), Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (HBIO), and Agilent Technologies (A).

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