Crying wolf? Oil companies that fought the drilling moratorium will survive
All oil companies can technically drill in the Gulf again, after Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Salazar lifted the moratorium, which began in May of 2010, in October. The government just issued its first deepwater drilling permit since the BP (BP) disaster to Noble Energy on February 28. Offshore operators were vocal that the moratorium would hit them hard, but now, nearly a year later, did the moratorium really affect some of its most vocal opponents?
