Drillers Hope Shallow-Water Permit Impasse Nears End, Noe Says
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Shallow-water drilling companies hope a meeting with the U.S. Interior Department will help end delays in approval of new permits, Hercules Offshore Inc. executive Jim Noe said.
“We are hopeful that today was a solid first step in resolving this issue and getting shallow-water drilling rigs back to drilling new wells,” Noe, senior vice president and general counsel of Hercules, said in a statement after meeting yesterday with Michael Bromwich, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement.