Reuters: The economic costs of the Obama administration’s six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico will be less severe than first feared, according to a U.S. government report released on Thursday. The inter-agency report, which was based on economic data and interviews with oil rig operators, projected up to 12,000 temporary job losses in the region — a lower figure than the 23,000 projected in an earlier Interior Department report. “We estimate that the …