The post-Macondo Gulf of Mexico is a strange brew of new technologies, new regulations, new procedures and a key question from many operators - How do I do business? "After Macondo, the whole chain was hit very hard in the Gulf of Mexico," said Pedro Guimaraes, executive vice president of Bureau Veritas' industry and facilities division for The Americas. "The question we are hearing now is from a regulatory standpoint," Guimaraes told Natural Gas Week on the sidelines of a recent press briefing by senior Bureau Veritas officials. He said the April 2010, accident that destroyed Transocean's Deepwater Horizon, not only killed 11 men and spawned the nation's worst maritime oil spill, it also "shut down operations in the Gulf. It hit everyone hard."
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