The Trump administration is giving oil companies more flexibility when drilling offshore, by easing Obama-era mandates imposed in response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. (Bloomberg) — The Trump administration is giving oil companies more flexibility when drilling offshore, by easing Obama-era mandates imposed in response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 workers and unleashed the worst oil spill in U.S. history. The Interior Department measure rewrites some provisions of a 2016 well-control rule, following industry complaints it imposed rigid and arbitrary requirements that ignore unique characteristics at offshore drilling sites, including their varying geological conditions, pressures and temperatures. Interior officials were touting the measure Thursday at Port Fourchon in Louisiana, one of the major supply hubs for drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. They have cast the changes as modest modifications that would preserve the safety of drilling operations while giving oil companies more […]