Re: After Obama lifts ban, Feds approve new oil well in Gulf of Mexico today

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Sandra Keegan <sandra.keegan () gmail com>
Date: June 4, 2010 5:08:37 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: [IP] After Obama lifts ban, Feds approve new oil well in Gulf of Mexico today

Dave,
for IP if you wish. 
The comments below come from a geologist with over 25 years of successful oil exploration experience in the Gulf of 
Mexico.
The report on lifting the ban on new oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico suggests that the decision to do so now was wrong. 
 Perhaps it was. 
The comments below made me reconsider this decision in a different perspective. 

Regards,
Sandra Keegan



The oil and gas safety record of the gulf of Mexico is virtually unprecedented and compares favorably with any area or 
country in the world...for years.
People need jobs; society demands oil & gas.  The US imports about 70% of its usage.
Stopping proven safe drilling practices is like stopping the sale of band-aids because a doctor is convicted of 
malpractice.

Deep water drilling is very new and pioneering, but had been disaster-less until:

British Petrleum (not Transocean, not Halliburton, not Cameron International) exhibited reckless abandon; followed 
procedures every expert in this business would condemn.  BP specified, then signed off on, taking full responsibility 
for, proprietary changes in Transocean's blowout preventer.  Implemented a previously untried well completion design.  
Continued to insist on unsound well completion procedures against numerous objections from contracted service companies.
This entire incident/disaster is BP's fault and BP's fault alone.  It's companies like this that give the entire 
industry a bad name.




From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: June 2, 2010 4:17:45 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] After Obama lifts ban, Feds approve new oil well in Gulf of Mexico today

After Obama lifts ban, Feds approve new oil well in Gulf of Mexico today
by: Chris Bowers
Wed Jun 02, 2010 at 14:35
<http://www.openleft.com/diary/18944/feds-approve-new-oil-well-in-gulf-of-mexico>

That any ban on offshore drilling would be lifted last week, as the BP disaster only got worse, is difficult to fathom. 
Unfortunately, that is exactly what the Obama administration did, which today has resulted in the approval of a new 
offshore oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.  Seriously:
Federal regulators have approved the first new Gulf of Mexico oil well since President Barack Obama lifted a brief ban 
on drilling in shallow water.(...)
Obama has extended a moratorium on wells in deep water like the BP one that blew out in April and is gushing millions 
of gallons of oil. But the president quietly lifted a brief ban last week on drilling in shallow water.

Ironically, this new oil well was approved not only as the BP disaster continues to unfold, but as President Obama is 
set to deliver a big speech today at Carnegie Mellon University on the state of the economy.  The speech will also 
focus on the need to invest in renewable energy and the passage of energy / climate change legislation.

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