Post-Macondo lessons learned still need applied, speakers agree

Although the federal government and the US oil and gas industry responded quickly and aggressively to identify and correct problems that caused the Apr. 20 Macondo deepwater well blowout and subsequent crude-oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico, it’s still not clear that safety and environmental lessons learned from the largest offshore environmental disaster in US history are still being applied, speakers at a Georgetown University conference said on Oct. 15.


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