Oil dots the beaches as vacationers take to the waters at Perdido Point on Thursday, June 10, 2010, after the Deepwater Horizon accident. NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The Department of Interior says it has set a December date for the next Gulf offshore oil and natural gas lease sale — the first such sale since the Deepwater Horizon explosion and BP oil spill.
The Dec. 14 sale will take place in New Orleans in the Superdome and include all the unleased areas in an area known as the Western Gulf Planning Area offshore Texas.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday that oversight of deepwater drilling has been strengthened and the industry has improved its ability to contain a subsea blowout and respond to a spill.
Tommy Beaudreau, the director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, says the decision to hold a lease sale was done "after careful analysis" of the effects of the BP spill.
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