Deep-Water Macondo Field, Scene Of BP's Catastrophic Blowout, Set To Be Drilled Into Again

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

By: Cain Burdeau, The Associated Press
Tuesday, May. 12, 2015 at 10:44 PM

NEW ORLEANS - Deep-water drilling is set to resume near the site of the catastrophic BP PLC well blowout that killed 11 workers and caused the nation's largest offshore oil spill five years ago off the coast of Louisiana.

A Louisiana-based oil company, LLOG Exploration Offshore LLC, plans to drill into the Macondo reservoir, according to federal records reviewed by The Associated Press.

Harper's Magazine first reported the drilling plans late Tuesday.

LLOG's permit to drill a new well near BP's site was approved April 13 by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, an agency overseeing offshore oil and gas drilling operations. The company's exploration plan was approved last October following an environmental review by a sister agency, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

The company, a privately owned firm based in Covington, Louisiana, will be looking to extract oil and gas deep under the Gulf of Mexico's seafloor, an undertaking that proved catastrophic for BP.



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[Turbineguy]

1. Remember guys....

check that the blowout preventer works this time.

[hedda_foil]

2. What could possibly go wrong?

[Owl]

3. Arrgghh!

[Hoppy]

4. Looks like Barak really loves him his oil companies.

First, Shell gets to drill in the Arctic. Now, this.

But don't worry about him. He will likely get shares of Carlyle Group like Clinton did. Do you think Bill's reward was in exchange for NAFTA?

[Javaman]

5. of course they are...

that well is a money maker!

[wordpix]

6. Minerals Management Agency renamed just approved Arctic drilling, too

now called Bureau of Ocean Energy Managemt and Safety & Environmental Enforcement. Go figure. Their way of "managing" is to open anything and everything to BigOil, fishing industry, marine mammals, wetlands be damned.

Just stupid.

[Dustlawyer]

7. As an update, most victims of the spill have yet to be paid.

BP promised the Plaintiff's Steering Committee, PSC (hand picked by the judge) $600,000,000 in attorney's fees and case expenses if they would agree to a terrible class action settlement that is currently denying 75% of the victims ANY money for their damages. For the ones that already got paid, BP just won an appeal that will allow them to go after these victims to recover some money back due to the claims administrator's wrong (NOT) interpretation of how to calculate damages. Former head of the FBI, Louis Freeh, and his company are investigating a very high percentage of these claims, most of which were for no real reason at all except Freeh's company makes more money and it intimidates the victims from filing or keeping their claims. The PSC only gets the money if the class settlement goes through without being overturned. This means they have $600,000,000 reasons to not fight to overturn this terrible deal.

[Brother Buzz]

8. This time, for sure!

[Mojorabbit]

9. I give up. I just give up. It does not matter who is in power anymore. nt

[daleo]

10. If at first you don't succeed...