Regulations for offshore drilling rigs are inadequate: Coast Guard official

摘要

Decades-old safety regulations for offshore drilling rigs areninadequate for current high-tech and deep-sea units, a CoastnGuard inspector said last week during a joint meeting by thenCoast Guard and the Minerals Management Service into thenApril 20 blast aboard the Transocean Deepwater Horizon andnthe subsequent oil leak from the Macondo wellhead.