contain a deepwater loss of well control and blowout. this is the same office, the same office at the interior department that requested and released the investigation that proved that blowout preventers don t work. now that agency is saying drill baby drill because the oil industry has proven it can handle a blowout. same agency. when the interior department granted its first new permit since the bp oil disaster last month, we took note on this show that the permit went to noble energy. seemed like an awkward choice to us at the time because the largest ownership stake in that noble energy project was held by bp. so the first permit granted since the bp oil disaster goes to bp. bp working with noble energy. after that permit was announced, the show obtained noble s oil spill response plan for that project. again, this is for the first new drilling permit after the bp disaster. we sought out that oil spill response plan because we figured
if the federal government was granting new permits to drill we wanted to see the updated response plan. he wanted to see all the lessons learned from the big bp disaster if we were going to be drilling again. during the bp disaster we all got really familiar with that company s ridiculously inadequate oil spill response plan. remember? the bp oil disaster took place on april 20th, 2010. this is noble energy s official oil spill response plan for their drilling that they just had newly approved. check out the date on their oil spill response plan. september 2009. so the government is assuring us that they are only granting new permits for drilling because of all the lessons learned from the bp oil disaster. look at this. the oil spill response plan for the first permit they issued, this oil spill response plan was written the year before the bp oil disaster. so no lessons learned from the bp oil disaster. no new containment capabilities developed after the bp oil
stack cap ready to go weeks ago? great question. they certainly should have, could have, and may have put flow rate monitors on this thing. for all we know, they did and they haven t told us. i m hearing some more accurate figures coming out right now but i m not certain. they certainly could have. on the second part of your question, that s the big one. they certainly should have had this stacking cap designed not just weeks ago but even before they were doing the drilling operation in the first place. they shouldn t have been out there drilling nor should any of the deep water offshore rigs be drilling unless they have a very, very clear blowout risk assessment, prevention plan, response plan, and a better oil spill response plan offshore. none of the companies to my understanding have any of those so they really have no business being out there drilling in this high risk, high pressure reservoir situation without that. so i don t know.
stack cap ready to go weeks ago? great question. before the healthmaster you couldn t do it. but they certainly could have. on the second part of your qution, that s t big one. and they certainly should have had this stacking cap designed not just weeks ago but even before they were doing the drilling operation in the first place. they shouldn t have been out there drilling, and nor should any of the deepwater offshore rigs be drilling unless they have a very, very clear blowout risk assessment, prevention plan, response plan, and a better oil spill response plan offshore. none of the companies, to my understanding, have any of those, so they really have no business being out there
i think afghanistan does not have oil, but they have incredible mineral wealth potential. afghan mineral wealth. it is not quite in the category of the mythical caribbean walrus from bp s oil spill response plan but maybe it s close. we are here on chicken street as you can see or approaching chicken street district. exactly. chicken street. everybody says this is where the tourists come. richard pointed out, yes, this is where the tourists come. today you are the tourist. this is it. i don t think we will see anyone else. this is what afghanistan is famous for. lapis. beautiful. the an ingent egyptians considered it as valuable or more valuable than gold. osirus the great, their god, was supposedly made of lapis. it has been valued since ancient