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Within days of starting my new job, I was given a major assignment. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, otherwise known as BSEE (and pronounced Bessie), was about to get a new strategic plan, and I was going to coordinate the effort.
As I dug into the assignment, I quickly...
Earlier this year, I found myself once again at the massive Ohmsett seawater test tank, a treasure in the world of oil spill research. It’s a place where I have spent many weeks since joining the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) four years ago. BSEE regulates the offshore...
As a Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement senior technical advisor and structural engineer, I am really fascinated by how technologically advanced the offshore oil and gas industry has become. The comparisons of subsea activities in deepwater regions of the Outer Continental Shelf to...
June 7, 2016 – When I first sat down at a three day Department of Interior (DOI) retreat a few weeks ago, I had a good sense of why I was there. The topic was Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes and the four dozen participants were assembled to summarize activities and identify priorities for the...
June 7, 2016 - They say that every place you live has its good and its not so good attributes. Every location has its beauty and its beast. If you have ever been through a hurricane event, it is certainly no beauty. As a Texas native living along the Gulf Coast, the threat of...
It is often said that as you move through a career certain learnings stay with you and you build upon those later in your journey. This is certainly the case in my experience as a petroleum engineer for 20 years with industry and more recently 19 years regulating the offshore oil and gas...
April 22, 2016 - The meaning of Earth Day differs depending on who you talk to; the one thing all definitions have in common is protection of the environment. Since the first Earth Day in 1970 there has been a consistent focus on educating the public about environmental issues. This...
By John Northington, Advisor to the Director
February 29, 2016 - The school...
By Sue Dwarnick, Chief of Offshore Safety Improvement Branch
February 8, 2016 - As the Chief of...
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