Deepwater drilling moratorium may temporarily cost 8,000-12,000 jobs, Senate panel told

摘要

The Obama administration's deepwater drilling moratorium could cut net oil and gas spending on the Gulf Coast by $1.8 billion and temporarily cost 8,000-12,000 jobs, an administration official told the US Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee. Early predictions that many deepwater rigs would leave the gulf and virtually all of their 9,700 workers would lose their jobs because of the moratorium have lot come true. National Ocean Industries Association president Randall B. Luthi noted that the report reduced original job loss projections from 23,000 to 8,000-12,000, but added that it downplayed the deepwater drilling moratorium's true impact on the region.