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DOI issues 'idle iron' order to offshore producers

09/20/2010
By Nick Snow
Oil and gas producers operating in the Gulf of Mexico will be required to set permanent plugs in nearly 3,500 nonproducing, completed wells with a subsurface safety valve in place and dismantle about 650 production platforms if they are no longer being used, US Department of the Interior officials announced."As part of our sustained effort to improve the safety of energy production on the Outer Continental Shelf and strengthen environmental protections, we are notifying offshore operators of their legal responsibility to decommission and dismantle their facilities when production is completed," US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar said as he and US Bureau of Energy Management, Regulatio...
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