BP Allowed in US Gulf Sale

摘要

BP will be allowed to participate in anupcoming US offshore oil and gas lease saledespite its role in the largest offshore oilspill in US history, a top government regu-lator said on Thursday.Michael Bromwich, head of the newlyformed Bureau of Safety and EnvironmentalEnforcement, said his agency determinedthat it would not be appropriate to ban BPfrom obtaining new leases to drill offshore.