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2 unusual facts about Bureau of Ocean Energy Management


Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement

On May 11, 2010, in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that MMS would be restructured so that the safety and environmental functions are carried out by a unit with full independence from MMS in order to ensure that federal inspectors will have more tools, resources, and greater authority to enforce laws and regulations that apply to oil and gas companies operating on the Outer Continental Shelf.

William Yancey Brown

He was a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution from June 2011 until November 2013, when he was appointed the Chief Environmental Officer of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.


Volume and extent of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Official estimates were provided by the Flow Rate Technical Group—scientists from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States Geological Survey (USGS), Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and outside academics, led by USGS director Marcia McNutt.


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