{"id":2654,"date":"2018-01-06T14:18:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T19:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2019-02-08T12:43:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T17:43:13","slug":"oil-industry-perfect-storm-favors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2018\/01\/06\/oil-industry-perfect-storm-favors\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Oil Industry: A Perfect Storm&#8230;.of Favors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2655 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/offshore-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"oil industry\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/offshore-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/offshore-768x943.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/offshore-834x1024.jpg 834w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/offshore-800x982.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/offshore.jpg 908w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The holiday season just keeps on giving for the oil and gas industry:<\/p>\n<p><strong>December 25, 2017<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/regulators-propose-rollbacks-to-offshore-drilling-safety-measures-1514206800\">Wall St. Journal<\/a> reports that &#8220;Regulators in the Trump administration are proposing to roll back safety measures put in place after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a revision that would reduce the role of government in offshore oil production and return more responsibility to private companies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"column at8-col8 at12-col7 at16-col9 at16-offset1\">\n<div class=\"module\">\n<div class=\"zonedModule\" data-module-id=\"13\" data-module-name=\"article.app\/lib\/module\/articleSnippet\" data-module-zone=\"article_snippet\">\n<div class=\"snippet\">\n<div id=\"wsj-mobile-ad-target\"><strong>January 5, 2018<\/strong>: Administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/energy-environment\/wp\/2018\/01\/04\/trump-administration-plans-to-allow-drilling-off-all-u-s-waters\/?utm_term=.c6e2e1ca0bac\">announces<\/a> it will open nearly all U.S. coastlines to offshore oil and gas drilling, saying it will reduce U.S. dependence on foreign supplies and create jobs.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong>January 6, 2018<\/strong>: Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/paloma\/the-energy-202\/2018\/01\/05\/the-energy-202-oil-and-gas-companies-get-a-new-year-s-day-gift\/5a4eac3f30fb0469e883ff28\/?utm_term=.7da741f08e09\">reveals<\/a> that\u00a0Congressional Republicans allowed a tax on oil companies that generated hundreds of millions of dollars annually for federal oil-spill response efforts to expire this week. This on top of the bill\u00a0slashing the corporate tax rate for all U.S. companies while\u00a0preserving\u00a0tax breaks specific to the oil and gas industry.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Wow. That would be kind of like <a href=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2017\/07\/18\/house-budget-devastates-osha-enforcement\/\">slashing OSHA&#8217;s budget<\/a>, attempting to <a href=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2017\/06\/23\/osha-rollback-beryllium-protections\/\">roll back OSHA standards<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=newssearch&amp;cd=13&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj-18aBhsTYAhVFYiYKHTWvB9c4ChCpAggtKAAwAg&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fdebbie-berkowitz%2Foklahoma-workers-comp_b_9376296.html&amp;usg=AOvVaw3u8JIugcZZdfs85fgmCfPP\">weakening workers compensation laws<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Imagine!<\/div>\n<div class=\"column at8-col8 at12-col7 at16-col9 at16-offset1\">\n<div class=\"module\">\n<div class=\"zonedModule\" data-module-id=\"13\" data-module-name=\"article.app\/lib\/module\/articleSnippet\" data-module-zone=\"article_snippet\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"right-rail\" class=\"column hide4 hide8 col4 at16-offset1\">\n<div class=\"module snippet-right-ad\">\n<div class=\"zonedModule\" data-module-id=\"8\" data-module-name=\"article.app\/lib\/module\/responsiveAd\" data-module-zone=\"rightRailAd1\">\n<div id=\"AD_G0\" class=\"wsj-responsive-ad-wrap\" data-ad-options=\"{&quot;adId&quot;:&quot;AD_G&quot;,&quot;adUnitPath&quot;:&quot;\/2\/interactive.wsj.com\/news_politicspolicy_story&quot;,&quot;adSize&quot;:[[300,250],[300,600],[300,1050]],&quot;adSizeMap&quot;:null,&quot;autoRefresh&quot;:false,&quot;adTargeting&quot;:{&quot;metazone&quot;:null,&quot;msrc&quot;:null,&quot;circ&quot;:&quot;snippet&quot;,&quot;bkuuid&quot;:null,&quot;p39&quot;:null},&quot;disableRefresh&quot;:false}\" data-tracking=\"interactive.wsj.com\/news_politicspolicy_story\" data-is-logged-in=\"\" data-cb-ad-id=\"TopRectangle\" data-google-query-id=\"COqtyPmCxNgCFVUGDAodIPgDsA\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holiday season just keeps on giving for the oil and gas industry: December 25, 2017: Wall St. Journal reports that &#8220;Regulators in the Trump administration are proposing to roll back safety measures put in place after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a revision that would reduce the role of government in offshore oil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deconstructing","category-regulations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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