In an effort to provide greater clarity and consistency, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) issued a Notice to Lessees (NTL) to the offshore oil and natural gas industry regarding the development of Oil Spill Response Plans (OSRP). The NTL provides clarification of the bureau’s application of existing regulations concerning the preparation and […]
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DNV’s summer students presented the results of seven weeks of intense and targeted work to develop a realistic and suitable concept for a year-round Arctic oil spill response system, including requirements for people, vessels and equipment. DNV’s summer project is an annual programme organised during the summer months for students in their final year of […]
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The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) yesterday initiated the first ever drill designed to deploy critical pieces of state-of-the-art well control equipment to the ultra-deep seabed of the Gulf of Mexico in an effort to exercise the oil and gas industry’s response to a potential subsea blowout. The multi-week exercise, launched at 8:10 […]
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Officials from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) participated in an all-day table top exercise designed to simulate the response to a well blowout in the Chukchi Sea. The exercise, planned over the past several months, included representatives from the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Fish […]
A number of wellhead system response and design issues have been raised in recent years, instigated from drilling in new geographical locations or with new equipment. These issues are not well understood across the industry, but have relevance to many Operators. 2H Offshore has been involved in evaluating these design issues with a number of […]
Building on the Australian oil and gas industry’s capacity to rapidly respond to an offshore well incident, the industry’s leaders announced funding of a world-class subsea response solution to be in place by early 2013. The announcement, at the annual Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Conference in Adelaide, means Australia has an industry-wide […]
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The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that they are partnering to enhance the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA®) for the Arctic region by summer 2012. ERMA® is the same interactive online mapping tool used by federal responders during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This […]
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The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has completed the first unannounced oil spill drill since the reorganization of the former Minerals Management Service was completed on Oct. 1. The table-top drill, which took place last week, was led jointly by BSEE in conjunction with the U.S. Coast Guard and the State of […]
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Enviro Voraxial Technology, Inc. announced that the Company has been invited to be a guest speaker at the upcoming Clean Gulf Training and Exhibition on November 30-December 1 in San Antonio, Texas. EVTN will display its new high volume Submersible Voraxial® 8000 Separator at this Exhibition. The Exhibition is the “World’s Largest Oil Spill Response […]
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A set of new guidelines to strengthen the response to oil and chemical spills at sea has been published recently. The post-incident monitoring guidelines are a key output from the PREMIAM project (Pollution Response in Emergencies: Marine Impact Assessment and Monitoring) which was initiated in 2009. A comprehensive document, the guidelines provide the principles upon […]
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