{"id":12997,"date":"2011-10-15T11:46:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T15:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=12997"},"modified":"2011-10-17T09:56:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T13:56:45","slug":"bahamas-oil-drilling-could-begin-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/10\/bahamas-oil-drilling-could-begin-next-year","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Oil Drilling Could Begin Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12999\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12999\" title=\"ocean-shore-oil-spill\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ocean-shore-oil-spill-250x166.jpg\" alt=\"Ocean shore oil spill\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ocean-shore-oil-spill-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ocean-shore-oil-spill-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ocean-shore-oil-spill.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Results of an ocean shore oil spill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The  Bahamian and Cuban governments on Oct. 3 signed an agreement delimiting  the two nations&#8217; maritime borders after nearly 40 years of  negotiations. The move cleared a major obstacle in the way of the  Bahamas\u2019 oil exploration goals since leases identified for their  potential oil finds are near Cuban waters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without the agreed  border between the Bahamas and Cuba, there would be some uncertainty as  to who actually owned the licenses,&#8221; Paul Gucwa, chief operating officer  of the Bahamas Petroleum Co., told The Reporter in an email.<\/p>\n<p>BPC is looking to partner with a major oil company to explore one  of its four wells southwest of the Bahamas&#8217; Andros Island. This would  place yet another major drilling operation less than 200 miles from  Florida\u2019s coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite assurances from the govermment that oil drilling in The Bahamas wouldn&#8217;t happen, due to the potential threat to tourism and the environment, Bahamas Petroleum Co. is gearing up to begin drilling in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[76,40,264,79],"class_list":["post-12997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-environment-2","tag-government","tag-liars","tag-marine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}