API backs Interior's deepwater drilling research plan

摘要

Washington-The American Petroleum Institute on November 30 endorsed a plan to create a private/public Ocean Energy Safety Institute to conduct research on deepwater drilling, but said it should not be housed within the US Interior Department as originally proposed. The API endorsed a "collaborative approach" to research and development in the areas of drilling safety, oil spill contain- ment and oil spill response "to enable world- class performance in deepwater safety through technology advances," API President Jack Gerard wrote in a letter to Interior Secre- tary Ken Salazar.