WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—April 14, 2015. Nearly five years after the Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement released proposed well control regulations for offshore oil and gas development. The proposal is based on recommendations from investigations by a number of government agencies, commissions and committees into what caused the blowout and how to improve well design, well control equipment and emergency response procedures. The proposal includes improvements for blowout preventer technologies and reliability, well design and control, spill containment and real-time well monitoring.
