The Interior Department is proposing new mandates to govern offshore oil drilling operations targeting high-pressure, high-temperature reservoirs below the seabed.
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Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s proposed rule is meant to keep pace with drilling operations that are advancing into more technically challenging Gulf of Mexico waters, with ultra-high temperatures and pressures that require specialized, hardened equipment - Measure targets environments with greater than 15,000 pounds per square inch absolute or temperatures greater than 350 degrees Fahrenheit (194.44 degrees Celsius)
- Agency says proposal mostly would codify bureau’s existing practices for reviewing and approving “novel technology projects”
- Measure would impose new ...