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News Items
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BSEE Establishes Investigation Panels to Address Recent Incidents
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Incident site at Green Canyon
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BSEE Director Discusses Shallow Water Gulf of Mexico Exploration and Production Trends in Gulf of Mexico’s Shallow-Water Province
BATON ROUGE, La. – Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) Director Scott Angelle provided a presentation on exploration and production trends today to members of the Louisiana… more
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BSEE Delivers Important Safety Information Directly to Front Line Offshore Workers
NEW ORLEANS -- The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is launching a safety initiative to bring critical safety information directly to offshore workers on the Outer Continental… more
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BSEE Employs Data Analysis to Manage Risk, Make Operations Safer
The Risk-Based Inspection Program supplements existing scheduled inspections employing a targeted, risk-focused protocol, allowing BSEE to direct additional inspection resources where needed. HOUSTON… more
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BSEE Finalizes Improved Blowout Preventer and Well Control Regulations
PORT FOURCHON, La. – Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) released the final improved Blowout Preventer Systems and Well Control… more
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BSEE Director Underscores Safety at National Inspectors Workshop
LAFAYETTE, La. – Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement inspectors from all three BSEE regions are meeting in Lafayette April 16-18 to collaborate on recent updates to BSEE’s inspection… more
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BSEE Director: Driving Offshore Safety Performance and Environmentally Sustainable Energy Production are Keys to Energy Security
NEW ORLEANS – Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) Director Scott Angelle emphasized BSEE’s commitment to safe and environmentally sustainable energy production during meetings in… more
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President Requests $200.5 million in FY 2020 Budget for Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump today proposed a $200.5 million Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget for the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). The proposed budget fully supports BSEE… more
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BSEE Panel Investigates Fatality at Walker Ridge 469 and Recommends Added Safety Measures
WASHINGTON −The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement today released the report of its Panel Investigation into a Dec. 2, 2017 fatality aboard the Petrobras 10000 drillship working in the… more
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BSEE Works to Ensure Safety for Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Production Start-up
NEW ORLEANS - The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement recently conducted its final pre-production inspection of Chevron’s Big Foot tension leg platform, moored in the Gulf of Mexico about… more