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Caribbean nations must prepare for oil spill – Industry leader
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With several Caribbean countries embracing offshore oil drilling, nations in the region should step up their abilities to combat emergencies stemming from deep-water oil wells, an industry leader and former U.S. regulator said Friday.
The remarks, delivered by onetime offshore energy chief Michael Bromwich and Lee Hunt, the former president of the International Association of Drilling Contractors, came one day after a summit on oil spill response in Trinidad.
The conference brought together 100 representatives from industry, the U.S., and nations around the Caribbean Sea to discuss the challenge of tackling an oil spill in the region.
The region could borrow ideas from the U.S. response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010, including the industry’s development of capping and containment systems for reining in runaway subsea oil wells.
“The lesson overall from the U.S. experience was you cannot afford to be unprepared,”…