{"id":284953,"date":"2011-02-28T23:14:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T23:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/28\/obama-issues-first-deepwater-drilling-permit\/"},"modified":"2011-02-28T23:14:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T23:14:26","slug":"obama-issues-first-deepwater-drilling-permit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/28\/obama-issues-first-deepwater-drilling-permit\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama issues first deepwater drilling permit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"56.0548192771\">    <!-- PURGE: \/2011\/02\/28\/news\/economy\/oil_drilling_deepwater\/deepwater_oil_rig_gulf_mexico.gi.top.jpg --><!-- KEEP --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/372287afxico.gi_.top_.jpg\" alt=\"deep water oil drilling\" width=\"475\" height=\"275\" border=\"0\" class=\"cnnstoryImageFull\" \/><span><b>The first Gulf of Mexico deepwater drilling permit since the BP disaster was issued to Noble Energy.<\/b><\/span><!-- \/PURGE: \/2011\/02\/28\/news\/economy\/oil_drilling_deepwater\/deepwater_oil_rig_gulf_mexico.gi.top.jpg --><span id=\"fb-recommend\"\/><br \/>\n<span>By Steve Hargreaves, senior writer<\/span><span>February 28, 2011: 6:14 PM ET<\/span><!--startclickprintexclude--><br clear=\"all\"\/><!--endclickprintexclude--><!-- CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (CNNMoney) &#8212; The Obama Administration approved a permit to drill a deepwater oil well in the Gulf of Mexico Monday, the first such permit issued since the BP disaster last spring.<\/p>\n<p>The permit is for a Noble Energy well in Mississippi Canyon Block 519, approximately 70 miles south east of Venice, La., close to the spot where the BP rig sank.<\/p>\n<p><!-- REAP --><!--startclickprintexclude--><!--endclickprintexclude--><!-- \/REAP --><\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This permit represents a significant milestone for us and for the offshore oil and gas industry, and is an important step towards safely developing deepwater energy supplies offshore,&#8221; said Michael Bromwich, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The agency has been <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/02\/18\/news\/economy\/oil_drilling_permits\/index.htm\">heavily criticized<\/a> by the oil industry and others along the Gulf coast for delays in issuing new drilling permits.<\/p>\n<p>Only 37 shallow water permits have been issued since a moratorium issued following the <a href=\"http:\/\/features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com\/2011\/01\/24\/bp-an-accident-waiting-to-happen\/\">BP spill<\/a> in April was lifted in the summer. The deepwater moratorium was officially lifted in October, but no new permits had been issued until Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The industry argued the delays have cost jobs and hurt domestic production. Supporters of the go-slow approach contend it was necessary to reform a badly flawed oversight process in the wake of the worst oil spill in U.S. history.     \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/02\/28\/news\/economy\/oil_drilling_deepwater\/index.htm?section=money_topstories&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29#TOP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/0e63013ebug.gif\" alt=\"To top of page\" border=\"0\" width=\"7\" height=\"7\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/CONTENT --><!--startclickprintexclude--><!--startclickprintexclude--><br \/>\n<!--endclickprintexclude--><\/p>\n<p>First Published: February 28, 2011: 4:51 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><!--endclickprintexclude--><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/372287afxico.gi_.top_-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/money_topstories\/~3\/iiCKEpDGEZQ\/index.htm\" title=\"Obama issues first deepwater drilling permit\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Obama issues first deepwater drilling permit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The first Gulf of Mexico deepwater drilling permit since the BP disaster was issued to Noble Energy. By Steve Hargreaves, senior writer February 28, 2011: 6:14 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) &#8212; The Obama Administration approved a permit to drill a deepwater oil well in the Gulf of Mexico Monday, the first such permit issued since the BP disaster last spring. The permit is for a Noble Energy well in Mississippi Canyon Block 519, approximately 70 miles south east of Venice, La., close to the spot where the BP rig sank<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Obama issues first deepwater drilling permit - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/28\/obama-issues-first-deepwater-drilling-permit\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Obama issues first deepwater drilling permit - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The first Gulf of Mexico deepwater drilling permit since the BP disaster was issued to Noble Energy. 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