US regulators on Thursday published the final version of new well-control rules designed to address the lessons learned of the 2010 Macondo disaster. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) laid ...
The US unveiled its final well control rule in April, just ahead of the sixth anniversary of the Macondo disaster in the US Gulf of Mexico. The timing is significant. The sweeping, 531-page rule, ...
The Trump administration is eliminating parts of a rule meant to protect the environment and worker safety that was passed in the wake of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.