Government to launch the review of the North Sea
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More than 20 licenses have been issued for new drilling in deep water fall, despite the accident the Gulf Mexico killed 11 men and triggers a giant oil spill
The move comes as Chevron BP Oil Giants prepare to launch ambitious deep-water campaigns in the West of Shetland drilling services for the first time-sensitive areas.
Chris Huhne, Secretary of energy, insisted on following the accident, there are eight months as Britain "security and environmental regulatory regime is fit for purpose".
But now that the investigations have shed light on causes of the incident the Mexico Gulf, his Department will begin a review of environmental precautions in the new year.
Its conclusions are supposed to be published in may - more than a year after an explosion on the horizon of depth resulted in offshore oil spill more important in the history.
A spokesman for the Department of energy and climate change (DECC) confirmed the move and said that he had been postponed, while to await the outcome of the various surveys on BP.officials have already started preliminary work.
After the accident, DECC has increased the number of officials from the health and safety and doubled the annual environmental inspections for oil platforms.Oil and gas industry is working on plans to improve the response to leaks through the prevention of oil spills and oil response Advisory Group (OSPRAG).
However, Greenpeace has criticised as insufficient reaction and continues the Government before the High Court to try to stop allowing water deep new drilling in the North Sea for environmental reasons.
He argues that a failure to consider eco-system region in the wake of the new ways in the Gulf of the Mexico allows protection should not be delivered.
"A review of the environmental regulation already should have been done," said Ben Ayliffe, an activist group pressure.
The U.S. oil giant Chevron was the first to start a deep-water drilling Lagavulin, 160 miles north of Shetland for a considerable increase in exploration in the region.
However, Greenpeace took issue with the latest version of oil spill response plan société.Dans document, Chevron says that dolphins and whales should avoid naturally leak oil because of their "good capacity swimming."
Chevron has admitted last month, he undertook to revise increased its forecasts of "worst case scenario" for potential oil spills in the area of the West of Shetland 77 000 barrels per day – a rate higher than BP has seen in the Gulf of the Mexico.
