after last year s bp disaster, environmental groups say offshore drilling worth the risk. they are asking us to take a leap of faith that over the past year we ve caught up with decades of drilling technology. where we didn t invest in containment, in response, we didn t invest in cleanup. before it could get a permit to drill this new well shell had to satisfy the government that if an accident were to occur it wouldn t take three months to shut off the flow of oil and gas as it did after the bp disaster. the containment system has the capacity to handle 60,000 barrels of fluid per day. marti massey is ceo of the marine well containment company, first response unit put together by a consortium of oil companies. it can be on the scene of an accident within 24 hours and cap a runaway well in 10 to 17 days. we were able to look at how bp responded. we ve now considered every possibility that could occur
after last year s bp disaster, environmental groups say offshore drilling worth the risk. they are asking us to take a leap of faith that over the past year we ve caught up with decades of drilling technology. where we didn t invest in containment, in response, we didn t invest in cleanup. before it could get a permit to drill this new well shell had to satisfy the government that if an accident were to occur it wouldn t take three months to shut off the flow of oil and gas as it did after the bp disaster. the containment system has the capacity to handle 60,000 barrels of fluid per day. marti massey is ceo of the marine well containment company, first response unit put together by a consortium of oil companies. it can be on the scene of an accident within 24 hours and cap a runaway well in 10 to 17 days. we were able to look at how bp responded. we ve now considered every possibility that could occur