Transocean, the offshore deep water drilling company, has hired a team from the lobbying firm Capitol Hill Consulting Group. The move comes just in time for the first of several congressional grillings on the Big Spill.

The team is led by former Rep. Bill Brewster, D-Okla., who served three terms in Congress ending in 1997, where he was founding chairman of the Congressional Oil and Gas Forum. Covering the firm's right flank is Jack Victory, a one time energy adviser to then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.