Tom Knode
Halliburton
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On March 17–18, 2011, SPE sponsored a 2-day summit to answer questions proposed by a US National Academy of Engineering/National Research Council (NAE/NRC) panel examining Gulf of Mexico deepwater operations. The NAE/NRC committee, which has been asked by the US Secretary of the Interior to identify ways of reducing the risk of incidents similar to the Macondo well blowout from occurring in the future, prepared a list of questions for consideration by the summit participants.