U.S. officials have given BP the go-ahead to drill a new deepwater well in the Gulf of Mexico, its first such permit since last year’s catastrophic oil spill. Regulators say BP has met strict safety requirements implemented after the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The proposed exploratory well is located roughly 246 miles south of Lafayette in water more than 6,000 feet deep. That’s about 1,000 feet deeper than BP’s Macondo well, which blew out in April 2010, killing 11 rig workers and leading to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Though this is BP’s first permit to drill in the gulf since the disaster, the company has been active there for months. Read more about the new permit from The Times-Picayune here.
BP gets first permit in gulf since Deepwater disaster
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