Bud's Offshore Energy (BOE)

Wall Street Journal on on Gulf delays

The Energy Information Administration, the research arm of the Department of Energy, last month predicted that domestic offshore oil production will fall 13% this year from 2010 due to the moratorium and the slow return to drilling; a year ago, the agency predicted offshore production would rise 6% in 2011. The difference: a loss of about 220,000 barrels of oil a day.

UK moves ahead with deepwater drilling

MPs have ruled out a moratorium on deep water drilling in the North Sea, despite concerns it could lead to a disaster worse than BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year.

Shallow water struggle (Wall Street Journal)

From bad to worse for shelf operations:

“We were on our knees when Macondo hit,” said Jim Noe, senior vice president and general counsel for Hercules.