OCS Performance Measures

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. 

BOEMRE informs that the data used in calculating the OCS Performance Measures is generated by OCS lease operators who participate in the OCS Performance Measures Program (BOEMRE 2011). During the first quarter of each year, participating operators submit to BOEMRE their performance data for the previous year. BOEMRE uses the data to calculate the annual performance indices on behalf of the OCS Performance Measures Steering Committee. The OCS Performance Measures Program depends on participation by OCS lease operators. The latest statistics are from the year 2009. A look into the statistics about the participation rate in these surveys finds that it is very low. 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) (2011) OCS Performance Measures Program, http //www.boemre.gov/perfmeas/... 

What are my responsibilities for submitting OCS performance measure data ... 

While valuable information on settling, filtration and cake post-treatments such as washing and gas deliquoring can be obtained from individual tests, in order to subsequently simulate filter performance it is usually necessary to evaluate so-called scale-up coefficients from sequences of tests. These empirical coefficients principally relate to cake formation (compressibility) and compression dehquoring (consolidation), as it is currently impossible to predict either from a knowledge of fundamental solid and liquid properties. Many filter cakes are compressible to some extent, and increases in filtering pressure lead to less porous and more resistant cakes. For these systems data are needed which relate the specific resistance, oc, a measure of cake structure such as solids volume fraction, and where appropriate the modified consolidation coefficient, Q, to variations in the plied pressure difference Ap. It is conventional practice to assume that Q and Q are solely functions of Ap. 

Monitoring Pretreatment and annual exams should include blood pressure, breasts, abdomen and pelvic organs, including Papanicolaou smear. Perform preventative measures and screening, which should include total and HDL cholesterol within 5-year intervals. Advise the pathologist of OC therapy when relevant specimens are submitted. Do not prescribe for more than 1 year without another physical exam. Lipid disorders Closely follow women taking OCs who are being treated for hyperlipidemias. 

Sciare et al. [46] by performing long-term (5-year) measurements of elemental carbon (EC) and organic carbon (OC) in bulk aerosols in the Mediterranean Basin... 

Nowadays, thermo-optical methods are considered the most reliable measurement techniques for OC/EC split in atmospheric aerosols. Nevertheless, methods for TC/EC/BC analysis in atmospheric particles are still open to debate and their different analytical approaches have been the main cause for performing intercomparison studies (Schmid et al., 2001 ten Brink et al., 2004). The TC measurements showed good agreement, whereas the results of EC/BC determinations were highly variable due to EC overestimation by thermal methods. Furthermore, caution must be taken when using BC as an estimative of the EC content in aerosols, and vice versa BC and EC measurements are associated to the carbon content of colored and refractory organic compounds, respectively, which can lead to substantially different results between methods (Poschl, 2005). 

Clearly one obtains the best performance for a given time constant with a detector that has the lowest possible heat capacity. The heat capacity of a crystal varies like C oc (T/0 )3, where On is the Debye temperature. Diamond has the highest Debye temperature of any crystal, so FIRAS used an 8 mm diameter, 25 fim thick disk of diamond as a bolometer (Mather et al., 1993). Diamond is transparent, so a very thin layer of gold was applied to give a surface resistance close to the 377 ohms/square impedance of free space. On the back side of the diamond layer an impedance of 267 ohms/square gives a broadband absorbtion. Chromium was alloyed with the gold to stabilize the layer. The temperature of the bolometer was measured with a small silicon resistance thermometer. Running at T = 1.6 K, the FIRAS bolometers achieved an optical NEP of about 10 14 W/y/IIz. 

The use of isotope-labelled synthetic peptides as IS was proposed for the absolute quantification of proteins in protein expression studies [113]. If necessary, these synthetic peptides can be covalently modified to be applied as IS in for instance phosphopeptide quantification. This approach was applied in the quantitative analysis of two glutathione 5 -transferase isoforms in human liver cytosol by LC-MS in SRM mode [114]. A series of pilot experiments were performed to select the most suitable IS peptides for four human plasma proteins (hemopexin, ocl antichymotrypsin, interleiddn-6, and tumor necrosis factor-oc) [115]. Rabbit polyclonal antibodies were raised against these selected peptides and immobilized on POROS supports. These lAC columns were applied to achieve a 120-fold emichment of the antigen peptide from digested human plasma proteins. The peptides and its IS were measured by LC-MS in SIM or SRM mode. The methods appears to be a tailor method for targeted protein analysis. 

Electronic structure SCF spin-polarized calculations were performed with the DV method for the cluster [Fe(OC)2(02CC)]io formed by stripping the ferric wheel molecule of its peripheral H and Cl atoms (see Fig. 8) [85]. Mossbauer spectroscopy measurements have been reported [84] calculations of the hyperfine parameters were performed and compared to experiment. The magnetic moment obtained on the Fe was 4.3/ib and the charge +2.3 [85]. 

Table 1 summarises the model to measured performance for each experiment in the EXACT photo-smog database. The investigated aromatics form a series of compounds with increasing methyl substitution, and for each compound a range of NOxA OC ratios are covered by the experiments. The ethene results are included in order to show the level of... 

Infrared spectra (IR) were taken on a Nicolet 7199 FT-IR. Thermal analyses were obtained on a DuPont 1090 thermal analyzer. Thermogravimetric analysis (TG) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) were performed at lO C/min. heating rates under N2. Reduced viscosity measurements (4) were made at 40-C in OC Ubbelohde viscometers. Values reported are the average of at least two measurements, which were within 0.2% of each other. Reduced viscosity is defined as follows ... 

Fig. 2 depicts the result of a cluster analysis performed on the data in Table 2. Sampling sites are combined to clusters according to the similarity of their contamination pattern rather than the magnitude of this contamination. Consequently, four clusters are formed cluster 1 consisted of the sites Weil, Koblenz, Cumlosen, Blankenese and Barbay cluster 2 of Saale, Giidingen and Mulde cluster 3 comprised the sites Iffezheim, Bimmen and Rehlingen and the fourth cluster, more isolated, was composed by Prossen and Zehren. Even if this partition could reveal interesting structures, it was not possible to identify the most severely contaminated sites, let alone to order them according to their contamination. Similar results were obtained by principle component analysis (PCA see Fig. 3). PCA yielded four principal components, which explained 82 % of the entire information (formerly distributed in 11 measured variables). The first component was dominated by DDE, OCS, HCB, Hg, and Pb. The second summarised the information of PCB, Cu and As. The third component was...

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