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An oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico. (Getty Images) An energy industry researcher says, despite both praise and criticism of President Joe Biden’s executive order banning offshore ...
According to Biden, the environmental dangers of new offshore oil and gas drilling — and the knock-on effects for the fishing, recreation and tourism industries — outweigh the potential energy ...
President Biden’s move to bar drilling across the U.S.’s East and West coasts, while splashy, may not have significant climate or energy impacts in the years ahead. Because very little oil and ...
The Obama administration assembled a panel to advise his administration on how to address offshore drilling in the wake of the spill. The group have stated that Salazar's May 27 report to Obama portrayed their approval of the moratorium, they claim that the panel reviewed a previous draft of the document with bans only on new drilling in water deeper than 1,000 feet.
The platform commenced drilling in February 2010 at a water depth of approximately 5,000 feet (1,500 m). [12] At the time of the explosion the rig was drilling an exploratory well. [13] The planned well was to be drilled to 18,360 feet (5,600 m) below sea level, and was to be plugged and suspended for subsequent completion as a subsea producer ...
The blowout caused the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, a mobile offshore drilling platform owned by Transocean and under lease to BP at the time of the blowout. While the exact volume of oil spilled is unknown, as of June 3, 2010 [update] , the United States Geological Survey Flow Rate Technical Group has placed the estimate at between ...
President Joe Biden is planning to ban the development of offshore oil and gas across 625 million acres of United States coastal waters in the Atlantic, Pacific and eastern Gulf of Mexico.
After proposing a major expansion in offshore drilling early in his first term, Trump in 2020 extended a ban on future oil drilling in the Eastern Gulf and expanded it to include the Atlantic ...