Minerals Management Service

Hanna, S. R., Schulman, L. L., Paine, R. J., and Pleim, J. E., "User s Guide to the Offshore and Coastal Dispersion (OCD) Model," DOI/SW/MT-88/007a. Environmental Research Technology, Concord, MA for Minerals Management Service, Reston, VA, 1988. (NTIS Accession Number PB88-182 019.)... 

Required locations of gas detectors (sensors) are often specified by the authority having jurisdiction. For example, API RP 14C recommends certain locations for combustible detectors. These recommendations have been legislated into requirements in U.S. Federal waters by the Minerals Management Service. RP 14C should be referred to for specific details, but, basically, combustible gas detectors are required offshore in all inadequately ventilated, classified, enclosed areas. The installation of sensors in nonenclosed areas is seldom either required or necessary. Ignitible or high toxic levels of gas seldom accumulate and remain for significant periods of time in such locations. 

The Department of the Interior is the home of the Bureau of Land Management, the Minerals Management Service, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, and the U.S Geological Suiwey (USGS). 

The Minerals Management Service requires a minimum 6-in.-diameter diverter vent line, but many operators are now using as large as 12-in.-diameter vent lines. 

Scheuhammer AM. 1990. Accumulation and toxicity of mercury, cadmium and lead in vertebrates. In Workshop to Design Baseline and Monitoring Studies for the OCS Mining Program, Norton Sound, Alaska — Workshop Proceedings, US Dept, of the Interior Minerals Management Service, OCS Study, mms90-059. 

A study by Environment Canada and the U.S. Minerals Management Service attempted to develop a standard test for emulsion breaking agents [586]. Nine types of shaker test methods were tried. Although the results are comparable with different tests, a stable water-in-oil emulsion must be used to yield reproducible results. Tests with unstable emulsions showed nonrepro-ducible and inconsistent results. 

The U S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) periodically publishes a listing of all the incidents occurring offshore in U S. waters. This list provides a chronological listing of all the reported incidents from 1958 to the time of printing of the document. 

Minerals Management Service (MMS), Accidents Associated with Oil and Gas Operations. Outer Continental Shelf 1956 - 1990. US. Department of the Interior, Herndon, VA, 1992. 

Kinetic Labs, Inc. 1992. Study of Recovery from oil spill on the rocky intertidal coast of Washington. KLI-R-92-14 OCS/MMS-92/0072 Minerals Management Service, Camarillo, CA Pacific OCS Region. 

Neff, J.M., McKelvie, S. and Ayers, R.C. Jr (2000) Environmental Impacts of Synthetic Based Drilling Fluids, report prepared for MMS by Robert Ayers 8c Associates, US Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS... 

Kan Arnold, Senior Project Engineer, Paragon Engineering Services, Inc., Houston, and Maurice Stewart, Jr., Regional Petroleum Engineer, Minerals Management Service, Metairie, La. 

Meurice I, Stewsrt, Jr. Is a regional stall petroleum engineer for tha Quit of Mexico OCS Region ot tha Minerals Management Service (U.S. 

Twilley, R.R., and McKee, B.A. (1996) Ecosystem analysis of the Louisiana Bight and adjacent shelf environments. Vol. I. The fate of organic matter and nutrients in the sediments of the Louisiana Bight. OCS study/MMS No., U.S. Dept, of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Regional Office, New Orleans. 

OCS Study. MMS 91-0065 NTIS from US Department of Interior Mineral Management Service, Alaska OCS Region. 

Spill statistics are collected by a number of agencies in Canada and the United States. In Canada, provincial offices collect data and Environment Canada maintains a database of spills. In the United States, the Coast Guard maintains a database of spills into navigable waters, while state agencies keep statistics on spills on land that are sometimes gathered into national statistics. The Minerals Management Service (MMS) in the United States maintains records of spills from offshore exploration and production activities. 

U.S. Minerals Management Service, Department of the Interior, Herndon, Virginia... 

Priest, T. (2008) Wake-up call Accidents and safety provision in the Gulf of Mexico offshore industry , in U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico (ed) History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana. Volume I Papers on the Evolving Offshore Industry. OCS Region New Orleans, pp. 139—152. 

The Environmental and Safety Risks of an Expanding Role for Independents in the Gulf of Mexico, Publication g8-oo2r. Mineral Management Service (April 1998). 

In addition, the regime calls for industry to report performance data on voluntary basis. According to BOEMRE, it replaced the Mineral Management Service (MMS) after the Macondo accident, and the MMS had collaborated with the U.S. Coast Guard and representatives of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas industry to develop a suite of consensus formulas for gauging the industry s safety and environmental performance since 1997 (BOEMRE 2011). These formulas, called the OCS Performance Measures, are used to calculate twenty annual, OCS-wide performance indices. The indices provide the public with information about performance trends, and they allow OCS lease operators to compare their performance with industry averages . The performance measures are presented in Table 9.2. 

Unfortunately, the meaning of the acronym DART is not found. Minerals Management Service. 

Safety Risks, A Comparative Assessment of the Minerals Management Service and Other Agencies ,... 

Scarlett, L., Fraas, A., Morgenstern, R. and Murphy, T Managing Environmental, Health, and Safety Risks, A Gomparative Assessment of the Minerals Management Service and Other Agencies. Resouree for the Future, Discussion Paper, DP 10-64, January 2011. 

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