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Mike Killalea
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Email: mike.killalea@iadc.org
2010 Press Releases
IADC Applauds Senators’ Leadership In Opposing Federal Drilling Moratorium
HOUSTON, 19 July, 2010 – The International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) applauds the leadership of three United States Senators, David Vitter (Louisiana), John Cornyn (Texas), and Roger Wicker (Mississippi), who are opposing the federal moratorium on offshore permitting and drilling activities announced on July 12 by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. Last week [...]
IADC Opposes Job, Industry-Killing Moratorium
HOUSTON, 14 July, 2010 – The International Association of Drilling Contractors unequivocally opposes the 12 July 2010 suspension on deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. This blanket, industrywide edict is contrary to precedent and abrogates lawfully offshore leases. “In issuing this new moratorium, the Department of the Interior has chosen to ignore volumes of [...]
IADC Testimony To National Commission Urges Speedy Return To Drilling
NEW ORLEANS, 13 July, 2010 – The International Association of Drilling Contractors today filed testimony with the Department of Energy’s National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, advocating a return to deepwater drilling as soon as possible. IADC presented compelling data that offshore drilling, including operations in deep water, have [...]
Study: Offshore Workers Call 68% Of Congressional Districts Home
HOUSTON, 12 July, 2010 – Offshore rig workers live throughout the United States, not only along the Gulf Coast, a new study conducted by the International Association of Drilling Contractors demonstrates. The study illustrates that job losses and dislocations caused by the ongoing deepwater drilling moratorium and the de facto shallow-water moratorium have a national [...]