{"id":11160,"date":"2010-10-13T10:13:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T14:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=11160"},"modified":"2016-09-20T07:57:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T11:57:41","slug":"drilling-moratorium-lifted-partially-boosting-a-few-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/13\/drilling-moratorium-lifted-partially-boosting-a-few-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Drilling Moratorium Lifted (Partially) &#8211; Boosting a Few Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration lifted (partially with caveats) the drilling ban and many companies within the sector got a nice boost. We own TransOcean (RIG) for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/mailbox\/tdi-investment-fund\/\"><strong>Horowitz &amp; Company<\/strong><\/a> clients and are looking at Atwood (ATW) as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/drillers-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11161 aligncenter\" title=\"drillers\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/drillers-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>From MSNBC.com<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama administration on Tuesday lifted the moratorium on deepwater exploratory oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico \u201d\u201d provided companies follow new safety rules.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Operators who play by the rules and clear the higher bar can be allowed to resume&#8221; drilling, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration on Tuesday lifted the moratorium on deepwater exploratory oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico \u201d\u201d provided companies follow new safety rules.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Operators who play by the rules and clear the higher bar can be allowed to resume&#8221; drilling, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re still in the dark,&#8221; said Hornbeck, who heads up one of the companies that sued to block Interior&#8217;s initial moratorium. His company provides vessels and other services for the offshore industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The devil is in the details, as they say, and the industry hasn&#8217;t seen the final requirements for what we would have to do to be able to actually get a permit issued,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Until that is done, lifting the moratorium may be just a moot or perfunctory act. &#8230; Right now, I&#8217;m skeptical that it will be anytime soon that permits will be issued even if the moratorium is lifted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michael Bromwich, head of Interior&#8217;s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, said it would take &#8220;at least a couple of weeks&#8221; before permits are approved.<\/p>\n<p>The administration has said the moratorium was necessary to ensure safety after the April 20 blowout of BP&#8217;s Deepwater Horizon well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>__<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration lifted (partially with caveats) the drilling ban and many companies within the sector got a nice boost. We own TransOcean (RIG) for Horowitz &amp; Company clients and are looking at Atwood (ATW) as well. From MSNBC.com The Obama administration on Tuesday lifted the moratorium on deepwater exploratory oil drilling in the Gulf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,224,12,42],"tags":[494,483,490],"class_list":["post-11160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-long-ideas","category-markets","category-stocks","tag-long-ideas","tag-markets","tag-stocks","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}