SafeOCS, a confidential reporting program, was established in August 2013 through an interagency agreement between the Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) for the purpose of advancing oil and gas operations on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The objective of the program is to capture and share essential information across the industry about accident precursors and potential hazards associated with offshore operations. As with the 2018 report, the 2019 analyses reconcile the SPPE data reported to SafeOCS using BSEE Incident of Noncompliance data (INC data) and Well Activity Report data (WAR data). In 2019, BTS also analyzed data from the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Oil and Gas Operations Reports – Part A (OGOR-A) forms, which provide well shut-in status information in addition to production volume information. The use of these additional data sources resulted in a better approximation of the complete set of records for failure events that occurred in the GOM OCS during 2019 operations. Importantly, SPPE failures identified in the INC, OGOR-A, and WAR data were used only as supporting information. They have not been added to the total number of SPPE failure events reported to SafeOCS.
The 2018 Annual Report: Blowout Prevention System Safety summarizes blowout prevention (BOP) equipment failures that occurred during drilling and non-...
The SafeOCS 2016 Annual Report, produced by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), summarizes blowout prevention (BOP) equipment failures on m...
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