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Drilling Is Stalled Even After Ban Is Lifted

By BEN CASSELMAN And DANIEL GILBERT

More than two months after the Obama administration lifted its ban on drilling in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, oil companies are still waiting for approval to drill the first new oil well there. Experts now expect the wait to continue until the second half of 2011, and perhaps into 2012.

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