VENTURA - Jason Langteau and Craig Ogawa from the BSEE Oil Spill Preparedness Division – Pacific Section - conducted a Government Initiated Unannounced Exercise (GIUE) with Dos Cuadras Offshore Resources (DCOR), LLC in Ventura, California on May 19, 2015. As the Exercise Designer and Controller, Jason Langteau delivered a scenario that required the DCOR, LLC to respond to a simulated oil spill from a subsea pipeline connected to the company’s Platform Edith located offshore of Long Beach, California.
BSEE planned and executed the exercise in close coordination with oil spill response professionals from U.S. Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach, U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Detachment Santa Barbara and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife – Office of Spill Prevention and Response (CA OSPR). This exercise provided an opportunity for joint cooperation, partnership, and governmental efficiency between federal and state organizations that have mutual responsibilities for regulating the offshore industry.
Government Initiated Unannounced Exercises are designed to give BSEE the opportunity to evaluate, on a no-notice basis, the response preparedness posture of the offshore exploration and production community. In this particular exercise, BSEE and its interagency partners focused on a number of objectives. These included the operator’s ability to make timely notifications to emergency officials, mobilize and organize staff to respond to the spill, plan for and implement shoreline protection and oil recovery strategies, and establish effective communications within a Unified Command. The owner or operator of an offshore regulated facility that is directed to participate in a GIUE must do so unless specific conditions exist that could compromise safety.
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