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5 Under the authority granted by the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and subsequent amendments passed in 1978,1 the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) 2 works to promote safe and environmentally responsible activity for oil and natural gas exploration, development, and production operations in U.S.
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6 Application of Remote Real-Time Monitoring to Offshore Oil and Gas Operations and gas operations. The agency began urging industry to make a deeper commitment to a strong culture of safety in all its operations (Federal Register 2013)
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Background 7 BSEE PRIORITIES AND CURRENT STATUS As one of its top objectives and on the basis of recommendations from external investigative reports on the Deepwater Horizon MODU explosion (OIG 2010; Presidential Commission 2011; NAE and NRC 2012) ,8 BSEE initiated exploration of how RTM and its associated technologies could transform the agency's safety and environmental oversight of offshore operations.
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8 Application of Remote Real-Time Monitoring to Offshore Oil and Gas Operations RTM AND OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS OPERATIONS For several decades, the U.S. outer continental shelf (OCS)
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Background 9 dynamic drilling processes for decades. More recently, a few major operators have incorporated enhanced onshore RTM (that is, RRTM)
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10 Application of Remote Real-Time Monitoring to Offshore Oil and Gas Operations At present, RRTM centers are operated primarily by the larger companies. To be effective, these centers require staff who can independently monitor several offshore wells, recognize anomalies, and engage constructively with offshore and onshore staff.
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Background 11 BOX 1-1 Statement of Task An ad hoc committee will conduct a study to advise the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE)
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12 Application of Remote Real-Time Monitoring to Offshore Oil and Gas Operations TERMS AND ASSUMPTIONS The statement of task (Box 1-1) mentions both drilling and production operations but does not distinguish between them.
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Background 13 • Condition-based maintenance (CBM) , also known as predictive maintenance, is an approach to performing maintenance actions on the basis of the condition of a component as measured or predicted by diagnosing its state of health, detecting and isolating failure modes, and estimating the component's remaining useful life.
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14 Application of Remote Real-Time Monitoring to Offshore Oil and Gas Operations rules. One, released February 24, 2015, concerned requirements for exploratory drilling on the Arctic OCS (Federal Register 2015b)
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Background 15 must maintain continuous contact with offshore personnel. When operations are completed, the operator "must preserve and store this data at a designated location for recordkeeping purposes," and both data and location must be accessible to BSEE on request (Federal Register 2015a, 21574)
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16 Application of Remote Real-Time Monitoring to Offshore Oil and Gas Operations NAE National Academy of Engineering NRC National Research Council OIG Office of Inspector General TRB Transportation Research Board Booth, J
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Background 17 NAE and NRC.
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