Testimony before Science subcommittee on energy and environment

Juan R. Palomo | 202.682.8283 | palomoj@api.org 

WASHINGTON, June 23, 2010 – In testimony prepared for today's subcommittee on energy and environment of the House Science and Technology Committee, API Upstream Director Erik Milito said the oil and natural gas industry intends to use any findings from the investigations of the Deepwater Horizon incident to continue to improve the technologies and practices to achieve safe and environmentally sound operations. 

“As part of this process, we will work to develop new API standards and revise and adapt existing API standards to raise the bar of performance to a higher level,” Milito told the panel.

The full text of his prepared testimony is below:

  Erik Milito Testimony (as prepared for delivery)
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