The European Union may ban the deepwater drilling

EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger calls on national governments of European countries to accelerate the adoption of a moratorium on deepwater drilling to investigate the cause of the accident in the Gulf of Mexico, reports Bloomberg. "It is necessary that all the responsible government at the moment almost froze to new permits for drilling with extreme parameters and conditions ... It actually means a moratorium on new drilling, still unknown causes of the incident",