In the Gulf of Mexico, the oil and gas production platforms are connected by pipeline back to the US.
Posted on 04/20/2015 12:53:05 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
NEW ORLEANS — As oil gushed from BP’s ruptured well five years ago and public outrage built by the day, the Obama administration issued a six-month moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
When the well was finally capped after nearly three months, political and industry pressure mounted on the White House to lift the ban, which it did about a month earlier than planned.
Since then, oil and gas drilling Gulf has bounced back strongly and the number of deep-water drilling rigs has actually increased from 35 to about 48. Drillers are pushing into even deeper water and greater depths below the sea floor to reach reservoirs considered riskier than the Macondo field, the source of the nation’s worst offshore spill.
Elsewhere, the Obama administration has pushed to open up offshore waters in Alaska and along the Atlantic coast to drilling. In January, the Interior Department unveiled a plan to open up drilling next year in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas on the Arctic coast of Alaska and off the coast between Maryland and Florida.
Here’s a look at what else has changed and what hasn’t in the world of offshore drilling in the five years since BP’s April 20, 2010, Macondo catastrophe:
(Excerpt) Read more at eaglefordtexas.com ...
Bottle nose dolphins and sea turtle, are still dying. No one knows why, exactly.
http://www.weather.com/science/nature/news/dolphin-deaths-oil-spill
In the Gulf of Mexico, the oil and gas production platforms are connected by pipeline back to the US.
No more falsified concrete cement inspection reports?
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