The federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) held a Government Initiated Unannounced Exercise in the Gulf of Mexico in late May and early June. As part of its mission to ensure oil and gas companies are prepared to respond to offshore oil spills, the BSEE initiated a simulated scenario for platform operator Equinor USA E&P Inc., to assess a company's ability to activate its Incident Management Team in Houston and carry out procedures described in its approved oil spill response plan. “BSEE conducts unannounced exercises on a regular basis to evaluate an operator’s oil spill response plan and gauge their ability to successfully accomplish objectives with a hypothetical oil spill scenario," Eric Miller, chief BSEE Oil Spill Preparedness Division said. The exercise required Equinor USA to respond to a simulated discharge of oil resulting from exploration drilling activity in Walker Ridge block 316, about 167 miles off the Louisiana coast. (Source: Work Boat 06/02/22) BSEE conducts unannounced oil spill response inspections in Gulf | WorkBoat
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