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This is a perfect example of why GOP hate radio is so confident in lying to CON$. They know that CON$ are too lazy to research anything for themselves. You could easily google the answer for yourself, but as a CON$ervative you demand someone else do the work for you, even though you provided no back up for your lie that permits were not given to American oil companies when the first permit went to an American oil company and you admitted the Brazil permit was the SECOND. You should have required YOURSELF to prove that the FIRST permit went to a foreign oil company before you decided to lie in public.A perfect lesson on how CON$ lie. When caught lying as above, CON$ just keep on lying.The ban has not been lifted for American oil copmanies.
You've already admitted the Brazil permit was the SECOND, the first went to an AMERICAN oil company. So did the 3rd and 4th!!!!!!!
Who has been issued a 3rd and 4th drilling permit? What companies with a source, other than your opinion.
Exxon Mobil lands a permit for deep Gulf drilling | Business | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
WASHINGTON The government on Tuesday gave Exxon Mobil Corp. approval to drill a new Gulf of Mexico oil well that had been blocked by last year's ban on some deep-water drilling.
It is the fourth deep-water well of its kind to be approved since that moratorium was lifted in October, and the first that will rely on equipment from the Houston-based Marine Well Containment Co. to respond to any blowout at the site.
The permit allows Exxon Mobil to drill a well in 6,941 feet of water in the company's Hadrian North field about 240 miles from the Louisiana coast.
Exxon Mobil was close to launching drilling at the site before the Gulf of Mexico oil spill at BP's Macondo well last April. Exxon Mobil already had secured a permit to drill and had a rig on location when the work was suspended under the administration's ban.
The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement that issued the permit has focused on restarting 57 deep-water drilling projects that were approved before last year's spill, including 16 where drilling had already begun.
The three other deep- water projects approved since Feb. 28 - for operators Noble Energy, BHP Billiton and ATP Oil & Gas - were among those 16.
The ocean energy bureau did not subject the Exxon Mobil project to heightened environmental scrutiny because it had been approved before the ban. By contrast, newly proposed drilling - like three deep-water wells in a Shell Oil Co. offshore exploration plan approved on Monday - is undergoing environmental assessments by the agency.
Exxon Mobil said in a prepared statement that it supports the agency's "efforts to restart safe drilling in the Gulf of Mexico so that tens of thousands of Americans can return to work."
To win the permit, Exxon Mobil had to prove to regulators it could swiftly control any blowout at the site by using the Marine Well Containment Co.'s capping stack and other equipment.
The Marine Well Containment Co.'s current suite of equipment is designed to contain up to 60,000 barrels per day in wells in water up to 8,000 feet deep, but an expanded system under development could be used in up to 10,000 feet of water.
Exxon Mobil was one of the major oil companies - along with Shell, Chevron and ConocoPhillips - that formed the MWCC after last year's spill. Others have joined since.
A separate organization, Helix Well Containment Group, also has developed a subsea well containment system.
Twenty-two deep-water oil and gas operators have contracted to use the Helix system in case of an emergency - including the three besides Exxon Mobil that have obtained permits since Feb. 28.
Michael Bromwich, the ocean energy bureau director, noted that the pace of approving deep-water projects had sped up in recent weeks, "since the industry confirmed its capability to contain a deep-water loss of well control and blowout."