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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Energy Quote of the Day: On Offshore Rig Regulations a Long Time Coming

Energy Quote of the Day: On Offshore Rig Regulations a Long Time Coming

By Pete Danko
BP Attempts "Static Kill" To Permanently Plug Damaged Oil Well
Just a few days shy of five years after the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 people and spilled nearly 5 million barrels of oil in to the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration has proposed safety regulations. The activist group Public Citizen called the long wait “an indictment of our regulatory process,” but U.S.

Making Offshore Operations Even Safer

By Energy Tomorrow Blog
Riffgat Offshore Wind Farm Nears Completion
Three zeroes stand out in the first annual performance report by the Center for Offshore Safety (COS), the oil and natural gas industry-led initiative to promote continuous offshore safety improvement following the 2010 Macondo incident: Zero fatalities, zero loss-of-well-control incidents and zero oil spills equal to or greater than 10,000 gallons in Gulf of Mexico

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