Best available and safest technologies for offshore oil and gas operations : options for implementation / Committee on Options for Implementing the Requirement of Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations, Marine Board, National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Academy of Engineering. Committee on Options for Implementing the Requirement of Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations, issuing body.

National Research Council (U.S.). Marine Board, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Offshore oil industry.

Offshore gas industry.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (83 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations: Options for Implementation explores a range of options for improving the implementation of the U.S. Department of the Interior's Congressional mandate to require the use of best available and safety technologies in offshore oil and gas operations. In the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Congress directs the Secretary of the Interior to regulate oil and gas operations in federal waters. The act mandates that the Secretary shall require, on all new drilling and production operations and, wherever practicable, on existing operations, the use of the best available and safest technologies which the Secretary determines to be economically feasible, wherever failure of equipment would have a significant effect on safety, health, or the environment, except where the Secretary determines that the incremental benefits are clearly insufficient to justify the incremental costs of utilizing such technologies. This report, which was requested by Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), also reviews options and issues that BSEE is already considering to improve implementation of the best available and safest technologies requirement."--Publisher's description

Contents:

Front Matter; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Contents; BEST AVAILABLE AND SAFEST TECHNOLOGIES FOR OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS OPERATIONS: OPTIONS FOR IMPLEMENTATION; Summary; 1 Introduction; 2 Processes for Identifying Technologies; 3 Processes for Evaluating and Developing Technologies; 4 Implementation Mechanisms; References; Appendix A: Statement of Task; Appendix B: Lessons from Other Organizations for Best Available and Safest Technologies Implementation; Study Committee Biographical Information

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 1, 2014).

ISBN:

9780309294300

0309294304

9780309294287

0309294282

OCLC:

893439602