Critics also charged that the Bank was lending money to drill off a foreign shore while banning drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Focusing on high-margin drilling technology and tools, Duroc-Danner spun off the drill-pipe business as Grant Prideco in 2000 and sold off capital-intensive barge rig and gas-compression businesses.

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