dragging our heels on not issuing any permits for several months after the lifting of the deepwater drilling moratorium which actually lifted in october, not in february. and the reason we didn t was because the containment capabilities were not yet ready. you re right, 17 days is not fabulous, but 17 days is a lot better than 87 days. which is what it took to contain mccondo well. and from dealing with the containment groups, both the helix group and the other group that s developing containment capabilities, they are going to continue to enhance their capabilities and continue to shorten the response time to potential spills. when you said that changes in the blowout preventers that you changes in what we know about blowout preventers in this recent report were no big deal and didn t really change your thinking in terms of whether or not we should be counting on blowout preventers and what the safety regulations about them should be, that does not square very easily for me with t
issuing any permits for several months after the lifting of the deepwater drilling moratorium which actually lifted in october, not in february. and the reason we didn t was because the containment capabilities were not yet ready. you re right, 17 days is not fabulous, but 17 days is a lot better than 87 days. which is what it took to contain mccondo well. and from dealing with the containment groups, both the helix group and the other group that s developing containment capabilities, they are going to continue to enhance their capabilities and continue to shorten the response time to potential spills. when you said that changes in the blowout preventers that you changes in what we know about blowout preventers in this recent report were no big deal and didn t really change your thinking in terms of whether or not we should be counting on blowout preventers and what the safety regulations about them should be, that does not square very easily for me with the fact that the secretary
well, these haven t been the rash issuance of permits, as i said. we issued none until the latter part of february. we were strongly criticized for dragging our heels on not issuing any permits for several months after the lifting of the deepwater drilling moratorium which actually lifted in october, not in february. and the reason we didn t was because the containment capabilities were not yet ready. you re right, 17 days is not fabulous, but 17 days is a lot better than 87 days. which is what it took to contain mccondo well. and from dealing with the containment groups, both the helix group and the other group that s developing containment capabilities, they are going to continue to enhance their capabilities and continue to shorten the response time to potential spills. when you said that changes in the blowout preventers that you changes in what we know about blowout preventers in this recent report were no big deal and didn t really change your thinking in terms of whether o