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  • The federal government's new Bureau of Ocean Energy Management feels confident enough that it granted XXI and McMoRan the only new ultradeep permit since BP's disaster -- to start drilling another prospect called Lafitte in October.

    XXI Energy Goes Deep Into the Gulf Christopher Helman 2010

  • The federal government's new Bureau of Ocean Energy Management feels confident enough that it granted XXI and McMoRan the only new ultradeep permit since BP's disaster -- to start drilling another prospect called Lafitte in October.

    XXI Energy Goes Deep Into the Gulf Christopher Helman 2010

  • ERICA HILL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, what we're being told at this hour, Anderson, is that it's actually in Lafitte, which is in Jefferson Parish, and that the levee has failed.

    CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2008 2008

  • He made a note of the number, called the Lafitte Hotel, asked for Miss Street in 609, and shortly afterward heard Della Street's voice on the line.

    The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970 1936

  • So that means that this area at Lafitte, which is bordered on the west by Barataria and by Captain Blood to the south, both significant features that we can drill.

    unknown title 2012

  • ERICA HILL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Anderson, from what we're being told, we initially heard about the breach in Lafitte which is in Cameron parish.

    CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2008 2008

  • Asked how she'd like to be pictured on her upcoming birthday, Marta told us, "Imagine instead of me at 100, you would have a bottle of Chateau Lafitte!"

    Michael Sigman: Marta Eggerth, Operetta Superstar, Turning 100 Michael Sigman 2012

  • Most of the time, the pundit Stanislav Belkovsky seemed more believable when he speculated that what Putin loved was not power itself but the attributes of power—“palaces, airplanes, limousines, yachts, honor guards, Charles Lafitte 1815 vintage . . .”

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Just last month I took an amazing airboat ride in the Barataria Preserve of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park, just 38 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico and saw alligators, fish, turtles, nutria, birds, Spanish moss, bald cypress (which can live to be 1,000 years old) and live oaks (that live hundreds of years, too).

    Blue Bayou Olga Bonfiglio 2010

  • Asked how she'd like to be pictured on her upcoming birthday, Marta told us, "Imagine instead of me at 100, you would have a bottle of Chateau Lafitte!"

    Michael Sigman: Marta Eggerth, Operetta Superstar, Turning 100 Michael Sigman 2012

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