U.S. Gives Green Light To Oil Drilling In Gulf Of Mexico

Jun 09 2011           Jump To Discussion

It’s barely been one year ago that 5 billion barrels of spilled crude petroleum forever changed the natural makeup of the Southern shores of the Gulf of Mexico.

Labeled by experts as the largest man-made disaster in U.S history, lives of those depending on the Gulf for survival have been forever changed.

Marine life that normally flourishes in abundance in those waters have all but been declared extinct because of the massive oil spill.

Wet lands and coastlines have forever been altered by the devastating oil spill on April 20 2010.

United States government saw to it to immediately impose a no-drilling sanction  in the Gulf of Mexico, to avoid such large scale fiasco from ever happening again.

Yet just a little over one year after imposing its sanction of no drilling, U.S. government gives Shell Oil Co the permission to begin drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

The oil giant said it has located an area in the Gulf known as the Cardamon oilfield that is large enough to produce 50,000 barrels of crude oil every day.

In all, the area contains enough oil to produce a total of 140 million barrels of oil.

Marvin Odum, upstream director for Shell operations in the Americas, said the estimate bodes well for energy supplies for the United States.

“It will also secure employment for more offshore workers,” he added.

The Cardamom field is the first drilling project the United States grants permission for since it lifted its sanction for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico last year.

Shell has stated they will sink billions of dollars into the project.

U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, who is for the drilling of the Cardamom field had this to say:

“The prospect of new American-made energy supplies means less pain at the pump for American families and more American jobs,”.

Despite new drilling to commence soon in the Gulf of Mexico, the people of the Gulf and its environment have still not recovered from last years massive oil spill.

Some believe, the ‘bayou’ will never be the same ever again.

 

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