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
now, of course, the debate going on here now is are we ready to go back into the gulf of mexico to begin drilling? are the safety responses there to be able to respond to an accident like the one that happened at bp? since that disaster there are a couple of companies that have been put together which will be the first responders in the case of any potential blowout. one of them is the helix corporation which was involved in mitigation of the bp spill. the other one is the marine well containment company, which is the company that has been contracted for this will, and the drilling permit was contingent on that company being involved. john hollowell is the executive vice president of shell deepwater, and john people want to know can they have confidence in a company like shell to go back into the water to drill the first well, what is different since the bp disaster, what is different about your company that wouldn t allow this
post-disaster make us feel better oil company-funded, oil company run outfit. it s called the marine well containment company, which i m sure will be totally different from the disastrously pointless marine spill foundation, even though it s funded by the same companies under the same circumstances with almost the same name. maybe they ll pick a new font. so that s how the oil company plans to take care of future undersea oil disasters from now on, the same way they were going to 20 years ago. three cheers for business as usual. as for the current disaster, the oil industries that that under control too, including the parts of the response that the oil industry really shouldn t have any control over at all. like for instance the decision about whether or not there should be a temporary ban on deep water drilling in the gulf of mexico. you might remember this judge, judge martin feldman. he is the federal judge who overturned president obama s first attempt at a six-month moratorium on