It is a deeper well and we are using U.S. taxpayer money to pay for foreigners to drill deeper than the rigs he has shut down.
One more thing to think about:
The Soviets nuked several out-of-control gas wells, according to reports. In the Central Asian republic of Turkmenistan, a fire has raged for nearly 40 years after a drilling rig ignited underground gas. And in some places on earth, leaking and oozing oil has been blithely ignored for decades.