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The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE / ˈ b ɛ s i / "Bessie") is an agency under the United States Department of the Interior. [1] Established in 2011, BSEE is an agency responsible for improving safety and ensuring environmental protection in the offshore energy industry, mainly natural gas and oil, on the United States Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). [2]
Operated by Shell, with JV partners Chevron (37.5%) and BP (27.5%), the spar acts as a hub for and enables development of three fields Great White, Tobago, and Silvertip. The oil and gas fields beneath the platform lie in a geological formation holding resources estimated at 3–15 billion barrels of oil equivalent according to a report by the BSEE, formerly known as the MMS.
On October 1, 2011, BOEMRE was divided into two bureaus, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). BSEE is the agency charged to provide regulatory oversight of deepwater oil drilling and offshore wind energy sources in U.S. Federal waters that extend beyond State jurisdiction. [9]
Map of wells drilled in federal waters, Gulf of Mexico; Christopher D. French and Christopher J. Schenk, (1997) Map Showing Geology, Oil and Gas Fields, and Geologic Provinces of the Gulf of Mexico Region Archived 2017-05-05 at the Wayback Machine, US Geological Survey, Open-File Report OFR 97-470-L, PDF file, downloaded 24 January 2010.
Eugene Island block 330 oil field is an oil field in the United States Exclusive Economic Zone in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located 170 miles (270 km) southwest of New Orleans, 70–85 miles (113–137 km) off the Louisiana coast comprising six and a half leased blocks: Eugene Island 313, 314 south, 330, 331, 332, 337 and 338.
The US natural gas pipeline system is a complex system of pipelines that carries natural gas nationwide and for import and export for use by millions of people daily for their consumer and commercial needs. Across the country, there are more than 210 pipeline systems that total more than 305,000 miles of interstate and intrastate pipelines. [1]
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior, established in 2010 by Secretarial Order.. On May 19, 2010, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar signed a Secretarial Order dividing the Minerals Management Service (MMS) into three independent entities: BOEM, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, and the Office of ...
BSEE – US: Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement [6] (formerly the MMS) BSG – black start generator; BSR – blind shear rams (blowout preventer) BSML – below sea mean level; BS&W – basic sediments and water; BT – buoyancy tank; BTEX – benzene, toluene, ethyl-benzene and xylene; BTHL – bottom hole log