Energy companies are drilling in waters deeper than ever before, though the industry still could tap even deeper, a Danish drilling engineer said. Frederik Smidth, chief technology officer for Danish energy company Maerks Drilling, told Fuel Fix — the energy arm of the Houston Chronicle — that energy companies were looking to the future of offshore energy development. “We’re drilling wells that we couldn’t have drilled 20 years ago,” he said in statements published Sunday. “But there’s a lot more we haven’t seen yet.” Maersk said it’s trying to breathe new life into an industry working with a fleet of offshore rigs in need of replacement. The company this year established a goal of reaching further into ultra-deep waters and ultra-harsh drilling environments with new rig technologies. The Macondo well, which failed and led to the BP oil disaster in 2010, was drilling to a total depth of more […]