Washington, June 23: A US judge Tuesday lifted a government moratorium on offshore oil drilling that President Barack Obama put in place in response to the ongoing BP Plc spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Judge Martin Feldman of the US District Court in New Orleans granted a preliminary injunction against the moratorium, finding it overly broad and insufficiently justified. The administration would appeal the ruling, White House spokesman...
Oil is its own master: Energy companies operate in a high-profit, limited-liability world of their ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Three weeks after the Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, executives of the offshore drilling company Transocean celebrated in a luxury hotel in Zug, Switzerland, where the company is based. The owners of...
Storm system heads to Gulf of Mexico
Taipei Times
Taipei Times
CONCERNS:: While not expected to develop into a hurricane, tropical depression Bonnie has renewed worries about storms hampering oil clean-up operations AFP , NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA Tropical depression Bonnie passes over...
Fact, Fiction and the Jones Act
Journal of Commerce
Journal of Commerce
The Deepwater Horizon controversy may be settled, but for cabotage proponents, the fight is far from over It’s hard to win an argument when your opponent knows the facts. In the recent controversy over the use of...

