MMS donated funding to support the Offshore Operators Committee's (OOC) management of two Performance Measures/Best Practices Workshops. The OOC was contracting with the University of New Orleans, and was responsible for all the prior arrangements and distributions, and staffed the registration tables. The two workshops were held at the Fairmont Hotel in New Orleans, LA on November 10, 1998 and at the Sheraton North Hotel in Houston, TX on November 12, 1998.
The second two workshops were held at the Airport Hilton Hotel in New Orleans on Wednesday, October 27, 1999, and at the Airport Marriott Hotel in Houston on Friday, October 29, 1999. These workshops provided a great opportunity for attendees to hear how the pacesetters achieved superior performance. The attendees may have wanted to adopt some of the pacesetter's processes to enhance their company's safety and environmental performance. The workshops also provided the opportunity to network with other operators about the processes they used for safety and environmental management programs.
In 1999, there were over 350 attendees at Best Management Practices Workshops held October 27, 1999 in New Orleans, LA, and October 29, 1999 in Houston, TX. These workshops were sponsored by the Minerals Management Service and Offshore Operators Committee in cooperation with the U. S. Coast Guard, American Petroleum Institute, International Association of Drilling Contractors, Independent Petroleum Association of America, National Ocean Industries Association and 18 operating companies. Attendees were companies and contractor personnel (Management and Staff) accountable and/or responsible for operations safety, environmental, and regulatory performance including personnel that develop and implement safety and environmental safety and environmental processes.
As a follow up to the two Performance Measures Workshops held in 1997 and 1998, the MMS solicited performance measures data for 1998 from operators on the OCS. That data was compiled into a Final Report for 1996-98, and was presented at the 1999 workshops. The goals of the 1999 workshops was to: share the performance measures data, have pacesetter companies including contractors share the process that helped them to achieve superior performance, present MMS perspectives on how to prepare for an offshore facility inspection, and highlight different ways to achieve good performance by operators of different sizes.
Current information related to performance measures can be found on www.bsee.gov.
MMS and the Offshore Operators Committee (OOC), with support from API and IPAA, co-sponsored the first set of Best Management Practices Workshops: November 10, 1998 in New Orleans, LA , and November 12, 1998 in Houston, TX. The November 1998 workshops featured pacesetting companies who shared their management systems with over 400 attendees. Each presenter showed how safety systems helped to achieve superior performance. Another highlight from the workshop includes the MMS' opening remarks and slide presentation given by Chris Oynes, Regional Director of the Gulf of Mexico Region. As industry's representative, Peter Velez welcomed attendees and discussed panel logistics as well as the SEMP Surveys and API RP 75 revisions. A total of five panels covered performance categories such as Drilling Personnel Safety and SEMP Auditing. The workshops demonstrated an excellent use of performance data in the form of best management practice sharing.