Offshore oil drilling regulations could soon be changed. Get the facts, Louisiana!
Regulations governing offshore oil rig accidents “are not set in stone,” reports The New Orleans Times-Picayune. This article was written in response to proposed federal regulations governing “spill prevention, containment, response and cleanup, and safety management systems.” The proposed regulations are being developed by the Ocean Energy Safety Advisory Committee, which plans to present them this fall to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Michael Bromwich, head of the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement.
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Bromwich offered some clues about what changes might be made to offshore oil drilling regulations. “We anticipate the advance notice of rulemaking will be extremely broad,” Bromwich said in an interview with the Times-Picayune. “It will contemplate a large body of possible improvements and enhancements to our current regulations including BOPs (blow-out preventers), which I’ve talked about many times, but I think that is only one example.”
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