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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10484
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/energy

New safety standards for offshore oil and gas operations

Brussels, 27/10/2011 (Agence Europe) - While it is impossible to eliminate all risk, everything possible has to be done to lower the still unacceptably high possibility of a major offshore accident in European waters to the absolute minimum, says the European Commission, with the spectre of the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico last year still fresh in the mind. The Commission, therefore, proposed a new law on Thursday 27 October which will ensure that offshore oil and gas...

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