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Bill on Oil Prospecting in Cuba Analyzed at the US Congress
HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 22 (acn) The
US Congress analyzed on Wednesday a bill that would allow US
oil companies to drill in waters of Cuba’s Exclusive
Economic Zone.
On March 5, Republican
legislator for Arizona, Jeff Flake, presented at the House
of
Representatives the initiative HR 4135, known as the Western
Hemisphere Energy Security Act 2012, the Cubadebate Web site
reported.
The aim of the proposal is that enterprises from his country
“participate in the prospecting and extraction of
hydrocarbons in any maritime area adjoining the US Exclusive
Economic Zone.”
Under this measure, oil companies could export to the
Caribbean island the necessary equipment for oil prospecting
and extraction, technologies for prevention and cleaning in
case of spillage, and well as oil and gas imports.
Likewise, it requests that the employees of such enterprises
who travel to Cuba should be backed by a “General License”,
which means that they wouldn’t have to ask for a special
permit.
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