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Offshore Stats & Facts

Most Recent Offshore Information

Incidents & Investigations

Incident & Accident Investigation Status
Here you can find a current list of BSEE Investigations including the type, facility, and status.

Browse Incidents
the BSEE Newsroom Library offers an accumlation of offshore incidents on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).

Statistics & Summaries
Access to data from BSEE and BOEM data center relating to many aspects of America's offshore energy program.

Incidents of Non Compliance

BSEE inspectors and investigators, if they detect a violation, may issue an Incident of Noncompliance (INC) to the operator and uses one of two main enforcement actions (warning or shut- in), depending on the severity of the violation.

 

Popular Topics and Statistics by Region

Alaska
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The Alaska Region borders 663,268 square miles of land, and has more than 80,000 tribal members that make up 229 federally recognized tribes. That’s almost half of the tribes in the United States. Maintaining regular contact with Alaska's Native organizations, Tribal Governments, and communities, is critical to keeping them apprised of general offshore oil and gas activities.

Atlantic
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The Atlantic OCS Region is divided into four planning areas: North Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, Straits of Florida, for administrative purposes under the Oil and Gas Leasing Program. At present, no active OCS oil and gas leases exist in any of these four planning areas, and no oil and gas lease sales are proposed under the current Five Year Leasing Program 2012-2017.

Pacific
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Pacific Region inspectors oversee operations on 23 oil and gas platforms in the federal waters offshore of California. With many of the facilities dating back to the 1960's, BSEE inspectors fly to each facility on a routine basis to perform diligent inspections and review all required safety measures.

Gulf of Mexico
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An active Region, the Gulf of Mexico is home to more than 2,400 production platforms and a weekly average of 37 drilling rigs. In the first six months of 2016, the Region’s drilling, workover, and production engineers who work out of the five District offices reviewed and approved approximately 400 permits.

Offshore 101

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) works closley with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to protect America's 1.7 Billion acres of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). This flow chart diagrams the integration.

Offshore Exploration & Production Responsiblities

Unitization is the process of "sharing" the underground resources - oil and gas reserves often are appreciably larger than the blocks described by a lease.

Explanation of Unitization