BP wins approval for new deep-water drilling in Gulf of Mexico | Salt Lake Tribune

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BP won approval from the Interior Department to drill its first exploratory oil well in the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion touched off the country’s worst offshore environmental disaster.

The new well will be much farther out to sea and in deeper water than BP’s Macondo well, which exploded in April 2010, killed 11 workers and spewed nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the ocean over several months. 

At a depth of more than 6,000 feet, the proposed well is part of the company’s Kaskida oil and gas development drilling area in the Keathley Canyon located about 250 miles south of Lafayette, La.

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