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This report explores a range of options for improving implementation of the US Department of the Interior’s congressional mandate to require the use of best available safety technologies in offshore oil and gas operations. The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act calls on the Secretary of the Interior to require, on all new drilling and production operations and, wherever practicable, on existing operations, the use of the best available and safest technologies that the Secretary determines to be economically feasible. Such improvements are mandatory wherever failure of equipment would have...
This report explores a range of options for improving implementation of the US Department of the Interior’s congressional mandate to require the use of best available safety technologies in offshore oil and gas operations. The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act calls on the Secretary of the Interior to require, on all new drilling and production operations and, wherever practicable, on existing operations, the use of the best available and safest technologies that the Secretary determines to be economically feasible. Such improvements are mandatory wherever failure of equipment would have a significant effect on safety, health, or the environment, except where the Secretary determines that the benefits are clearly insufficient to justify the costs of using such technologies.