Offshore oil drilling regulations
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday made public its rollback of a major offshore-drilling safety regulation, significantly weakening an Obama-era rule that was put in place after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, which killed 11 people and sent 4.9 million barrels of oil gushing into the sea, causing the worst Offshore Drilling Regulations Production Safety Systems Rule In December 2017, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) released revisions to the Production Safety Systems Rule to weaken offshore drilling safety regulations that had been put in place after the Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill.