Interior close to floating new offshore drilling rule
{mosads}Interior toughened offshore drilling safety requirements after the BP disaster with new standards for well designs, required third-party verification that subsea “blowout preventers” can close off drill-pipes, and many other measures.
But the department has long planned new standards for the crucial subsea devices that are meant as a failsafe against major well accidents like the BP disaster.
BP’s ruptured Macondo well is estimated to have dumped over four million barrels of oil into the ocean over several months.
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