And because oil exists under the North Sea and off Norway, BP is looking off Nova Scotia, where it recently scored drilling rights.

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But he does it in an unexpected place: not at the company's base on the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia, Canada, but in a small warehouse far from the sea in Louisville, Kentucky.

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