Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Michael Bromwich testify on offshore oil drilling in Washington
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (L) and Michael Bromwich, Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, testify before the House Oversight and Government Reforms Committee hearing on the department of Interior's oversight of the offshore oil drilling, in Washington on July 22, 2010. UPI/Kevin Dietsch
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The U.S. Department of Interior and U.S. Coast Guard plan to inspect an oil rig leased by Spanish energy company Repsol in Cuban waters, an official said.
BP, Transocean and Halliburton could face additional legal challenges stemming from the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, an outgoing U.S. regulator said.
Moving forward with oil and gas development safely is vital to regional energy security, the new director of U.S. safety and environmental enforcement said.
Spanish energy company Repsol said it would match U.S. deep-water environmental standards in its exploration for oil off the coast of Cuba.
U.S. firms will be allowed to respond to any oil spills from drilling set to begin off Cuba's northern coast later this year, the Obama administration says.
Washington rebuked BP and two contractors at the heart of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill as company executives were to testify Thursday before a House committee.
The U.S. government aims to release draft laws on offshore drilling for 2012 to 2017 on time despite a regulator shake-up, an official said.
The chief oil and gas regulator for the Obama administration has called on Rep. Jeff Landry to publicly apologize for likening his agency to the Gestapo.
A small fraction of the blocks up for auction in the Gulf of Mexico could be held up by border talks between the United States and Mexico, an official said.
The U.S. government is set to levy sanctions against the three companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, an agency chief said Thursday.
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