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Deloitte: Oil firms evaluating potential US offshore regulations

11/29/2010
Paula DittrickSenior Staff WriterOil and gas companies are evaluating their changing risk exposure in the Gulf of Mexico following the blowout of BP PLC's Macondo well and subsequent massive oil spill, industry executives said in a Deloitte LLP survey released Nov. 18 at Deloitte's energy conference in Houston."The new environment for risk means that managers of most companies are betting the entire company on every well, regardless of the likelihood of another disaster like the Deepwater Horizon," said Gary A. Adams, Deloitte vice-chairman of oil and gas.Transocean Ltd. drilled the Macondo well using its Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible drilling rig, which sank on Apr. 22 afte...
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