Washington

THE Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a final set of regulations on offshore oil and gas (O&G) drilling that are aimed at preventing the kind of equipment failures that caused the disastrous 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The publication of the rules, which the administration released in draft form last year, is timed just before the sixth anniversary of the April 20 explosion on a BP oil rig that killed 11 and sent millions of barrels of oil into the gulf.