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Bromwich pledges careful, measured enforcement for contractors

11/21/2011
By Nick Snow
Interim US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Director Michael R. Bromwich said enforcement will be careful and measured as he defended extending the US Department of the Interior's offshore oil and gas regulatory reach to drilling contractors and service and supply companies. "We did not take this step lightly, nor did we take it before fully satisfying ourselves that we had the legal authority to do so," he said in a keynote address at the International Association of Drilling Contractors' 2011 annual meeting in Austin. "But once we concluded that we did, there was no good reason not to do so." Bromwich said the fact that the US Minerals Management Servic...
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