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Latest. reporter: good evening. the hearing lasted an hour fifth circuit court of appeals announced early next week it will make the ruling known whether to uphold or overturn lower court s ruling on overturning the moratorium on offshore drilling. they disagree over who has more merits here, the district judge or interior secretary. in the gulf of mexico where it has a third of the energy, the past month has been slow for new drilling. new safety rules issued by the interior department affects not just deepwater operations, deeper than 500 feet but shallow drilling and production as well, the vast majority of gulf activity. the spartan 151 rig is one of own by spartan offshore, three were idle as the issue of permit slowed which is now picking back up. and the oil industry an lized and digested the stricter rules. all forward looking ....
Latest. reporter: good evening. the hearing lasted an hour fifth circuit court of appeals announced early next week it will make the ruling known whether to uphold or overturn lower court s ruling on overturning the moratorium on offshore drilling. they disagree over who has more merits here, the district judge or interior secretary. in the gulf of mexico where it has a third of the energy, the past month has been slow for new drilling. new safety rules issued by the interior department affects not just deepwater operations, deeper than 500 feet but shallow drilling and production as well, the vast majority of gulf activity. the spartan 151 rig is one of own by spartan offshore, three were idle as the issue of permit slowed which is now picking back up. and the oil industry an lized and digested the stricter rules. all forward looking ....
all forward looking permits were stopped. plans were stopped, exploration plans, development plans, new well permits, workover permits, pipeline permits. it was all stopped. reporter: that rig we were just on, one of four owned by spartan offshore have been idled. the doi tells me today while the moratorium stopped operations at 33-degree water rigs, production operations continue on 46 rigs in deeper than 1,000 feet water. shepard: more tarballs in the region i m reading. unbelievable for the residents of new orleans. we thought they were far enough removed but on the it doorstep, 100 new pounds pounds of ....