Interior proposes changes to post-Deepwater Horizon blowout prevention rule

Published September 12, 2022 9:15pm ET




The Interior Department is proposing reforms to its offshore well control rule covering drilling operations on the outer continental shelf in hopes of better protecting against the kind of blowout that caused the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010.

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