After one small ceremony this week, NASA and Deloitte hope to make a giant leap in improving oil field safety.
The space agency and the consulting firm signed off on a partnership to provide advanced risk-management services to oil and gas companies.
It will focus on preventing risk scenarios that have a low probability of occurring but have devastating consequences, such as the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil well disaster or the in-flight destruction of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia.
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