Obama's 2d to pinpoint America’s offshore oil deposits;
Federal officials currently employ estimates based primarily on two-dimensional,
black-and-white maps that oil-industry surveyors produced in the 1970s and furnished to the Interior Department.
Obama’s bill would prohibit expanded use of 3-D,
color seismic techniques that locate and measure underwater oil deposits
Satellites help find and quantify subsea deposits, track their flows,
and predict their next steps.
