National Commission on the BP Deepwater

Graham, B., ReiUy, W.K., Beinecke, R, Boesch, D.F., Garcia, T.D., Murray, C.A., Ulmer, F., "Deep Water The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling", Report to the President, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Ho-izon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, January, 2011. 

The White House Office of the Press Secretary, Executive Order - National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, 22 May 2010, established the Commission with a mandate to analyse the root causes of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster and to recommend options for future. 

National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling (2010) The History of Offshore Oil and Gas in the United States (Long Version). Washington, DC. See also Staff Working Paper N0.22, 2010, p. 13 (hereinafter. Commission, History of Offshore). 

This issue has come under particularly close scrutiny following the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico. At the time of the incident, the safety regulation in place for the offshore oil and gas industry in the United States took the form of a prescriptive, standards-based regime. The report of the National Commission on the Deepwater Horizon Blowout includes a summary of the development of the safety case approach in the nuclear, chemicals, aviation, and offshore oil and gas industry (National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling 2011b, 69) and points out that the fatality rate in the offshore oil and gas industry in the United States is at least four times the fatality rate in European jurisdictions that have operated for several decades under safety case... 

National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, Cheif Counsel s Report (2011), p. 260. 

National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, Deep Water 55 (2011) Margaret Kriz Hobson, A Year After Oil Spill, Urgency Turns to Impasse, Congressional Quarterly, April 18, 2011, at 852 Alyson Flournoy, et al.,... 

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