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BSEE Basics

BSEE Basics. Improve risk management and ensure safety for offshore workers Environmental protection Spill prevention Spill response. Safety Culture. Goes beyond compliance with regulations Decisions and actions taken with the workers and the environment in mind

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BSEE Basics

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  1. BSEE Basics • Improve risk management and ensure safety for offshore workers • Environmental protection • Spill prevention • Spill response

  2. Safety Culture • Goes beyond compliance with regulations • Decisions and actions taken with the workers and the environment in mind • Accountability to those who expose their people or the environment to greater risk • Risk management used to evaluate and enhance safety culture

  3. Risk Management • Identify and quantify risks • Collect and analyze more data, more efficiently and effectively • Measure performance and outcomes

  4. Environmental Protection • Hold industry to a high standard of not having spills or harming the environment • Encourage safe, timely development of offshore assets • Prevent loss of well control by utilizing well control best practices and barriers-- spill prevention equipment is a last resort • Maintain a robust oil spill response program

  5. Oil Spill Response Division • Planning, Review, and Education • Reviews and approves Oil Spill Response Plans • Validates preparedness by conducting unannounced oil spill exercises and equipment inspections. • Enforces regulations • Participates in the National Response System

  6. Oil Spill Research • Comprehensive research program • OSRD’s Response Research Unit (RRU) manages the funding for numerous research projects • Oversees Ohmsett • Invest $7 million in 2014

  7. Oil Spills in Icy Conditions

  8. Beyond Compliance • Focus on risk identification, reduction and avoidance. • Utilize our near miss reporting system. • Share & use well control best practices. • Visit Ohmsett and get involved with spill response research. • Ensure protection of people & the environment on the OCS.

  9. Website: www.bsee.gov

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