BHP Billiton to Resume Gulf of Mexico Drilling After Permit Win
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BHP Billiton Ltd., the world’s biggest mining company, will resume drilling of a production well at its Shenzi oil field in the Gulf of Mexico after winning the second U.S. deep-water permit since BP Plc’s spill last year.
“We are very pleased to be resuming work,” Kelly Quirke, a spokeswoman for Melbourne-based BHP, said in an e-mailed statement today. The company joins Noble Energy Inc. as the only drillers cleared to resume work by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement since BP’s April 20 spill.