Lufkin, based in Lufkin, Texas, makes pumping equipment that helps drillers extract more oil out of older fields or ones that need to be pumped because the oil and gas underground is not under enough pressure to be forced to the surface naturally.

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Katrina crushed Mars with 90-foot waves that toppled the drilling equipment stationed on deck and damaged vital pumping and processing gear.

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