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Outer Continental Shelf Safety Oversight Board Report to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar

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News release: “Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that a team led by senior officials in the Department of the Interior, including Interior’s Inspector General, have completed a review of offshore oil and gas oversight and regulation and have delivered a set of recommendations that reinforce and expand on ongoing reforms being carried out by Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE) Director Michael R. Bromwich. The report of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Safety Oversight Board, which Secretary Salazar established immediately following the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig, provides recommendations to strengthen permitting, inspections, enforcement and environmental stewardship. Director Bromwich announced today that BOEMRE has developed an implementation plan for the recommendations, many of which are already underway or planned.”

  • “Above all, through each of the topics addressed in this report runs a single theme: BOEMRE must pursue, and industry must engage in, a new culture of safety in which protecting human life and preventing environmental disasters are the highest priority, with the goal of making leasing and production safer and more sustainable. The purpose of a broad safety culture program is to create and maintain industry, worker, and regulator awareness of, and commitment to, measures that will achieve human safety and environmental protection, and to make sure that where industry fails, BOEMRE will respond with strong enforcement authorities.”
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