[jazusamo]

“The fact that the secretary has to come to Capitol Hill to testify before lawmakers seems to have suddenly focused his attention on the permitting

Nah, must be a coincidence. /sarc

[JohnD9207]

Boy I was worried for a while, but 1 permit in a year gee they will get this oil economy going soon...BRAVO!

[PilotDave]

Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!

[Abathar]

Nope, now the administration can say without having to cross its fingers that they are proactive in helping us reduce out dependence on foreign oil and ARE permitting new drilling.

[epithermal]

““Initial drilling on this well began April 16, 2010, in 6,500 feet water depth, and the activities were suspended June 12, 2010, under the temporary drilling moratorium, issued in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill,” BOEMRE said in a summary of the permit approval.”

So, they are having to permit wells that were already drilling before the moratorium - insane! We need to immediately permit all proposals and get the show on the road.

[de.rm]

"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, 3 times is enemy action."

Auric Goldfinger

[Gaffer]

Must be a Muslim Oil Company

[Cyber Liberty]

>>“This permit was issued for one simple reason: the operator successfully demonstrated that it can drill its deepwater well safely and that it is capable of containing a subsea blowout if it were to occur check cleared.

Fixed it.

[bvw]

“This permit was issued for one simple reason: the operator successfully demonstrated that it can drill its deepwater well safely and that it is capable of containing a subsea blowout if it were to occur. We expect further deepwater permits to be approved in coming weeks and months based on the same process that led to the approval of this permit,” he added.

What damnable hubris! No mention of the Judge's contempt order against the department, no mention of the congressional hearings. And yet will this man lose his job, his pension, his future, his business, his house, his wife and the respect of his children?

Tens of thousands have because of this spokesman and all his co-workers in that tyrannical bureaucracy.

[luv2ndamend]

How much of a contribution did this cost?

[Hans]

No drilling will occur while B. Obama is in the White House. The man is moving the US towards a great crisis
which, he hopes, will usher in the Age of Marx.

[Truth29]

This needs a techie review. I am not sure this announcemnet is all that it appears to be. From the source below, it appears this is a permit to drill a bipass well around the plugs placed in the bore when the moratorium was announced. Does that allow full depth drilling:

http://www.pennenergy.com/index/petroleum/display/0597871916/articles/pennenergy/petroleum/offshore/2011/02/breaking-news__boemre.html