Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations Options for Implementation (2013) / Chapter Skim
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3 The Technology Assessment and Research Program was established by DOI in the 1970s to ensure that industry operations on the outer continental shelf incorporated the use of BAST. 4 On October 1, 2011, BSEE became the federal entity within DOI responsible for safety and environmental oversight of internal processes of offshore oil and gas operations.
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The offshore drilling and production environment poses technical challenges, which become more demanding as activities move into deep water or formations involving high pressures or high temperatures or into harsh environments such as the Arctic. As technologies mature, industry competition drives novel technology into use, creating an inherent "push" dynamic of new candidate technologies, including those enhancing mechanical integrity and consequently improving safety.
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The scarcity of data with regard to low-probability and high-impact offshore accidents makes it exceptionally difficult to quantify risks and thereby ascribe dollar values to safety technologies. TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND MATURATION In funding new offshore technology research, the federal government invests on behalf of the public, and industry invests on behalf of its shareholders.
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. In view of the challenges associated with technology assessments and economic analyses and of the role played by expert judgments, BSEE should seek access to the requisite expertise, including a
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OESI is intended to be used to support technology assessment and facilitate BSEE's implementation of BAST. The committee considers OESI to be a suitable vehicle for supporting BSEE by identifying, evaluating, and maturing new technologies that would materially improve offshore operations safety.
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, OESI will face key challenges that are typical at the start-up of this type of organization. It will need a funding commitment that is consistently in the range of several million dollars per year to attract and grow the skills and competencies required, to monitor and keep pace with industry technology developments, and to shape and support as necessary the research programs to assess and mature beneficial technologies.
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The compendium process should proactively seek and discuss industry test plans to exploit opportunities for using these facilities more effectively for BAST introduction. This approach could also identify alternative courses of action with regard to the effective use of existing facilities in the United States or overseas and the development of industryor government-sponsored facilities and complement the current company-centric approach.
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10 Best Available & Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil & Gas Operations tions, interface with his or her counterparts within industry, and provide critical judgment of industry plans and activities to senior and management staff within BSEE and DOI. PARTICIPATION OF STAKEHOLDERS In BAST implementation, many challenges will arise in creating the structures and conditions that will reliably bring the best technologies to the attention of both operators and the regulator and allow the regulator to assess fully the net benefits of applying these technologies in offshore operations.
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