Federal officials said they were encouraged by what they saw Friday after visiting two Houston firms that are developing systems to contain subsea well blowouts. The containment systems progress moves the industry closer to resuming deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico after months of delay following the Deepwater Horizon disaster. “I am very confident we are getting close to the point where we can issue deep-water permits,” Michael Bromwich, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, said in a press conference. Officials were unwilling to say if the systems were enough to assure a deep-water...
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