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  BSEE is providing updated guidance for the current and future hurricane seasons through a Notice to Lessees (NTL) released. NTL 2015-G02 clarifies reporting requirements related to personnel evacuation, production curtailment, and shut-in activity. These reports are received and processed within BSEE’s hurricane response team and is required to help mitigate risks associated with hurricanes and tropical storms on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Offshore oil and gas operators determine when to activate their severe weather plans for their drilling rigs and production platforms. Once activated, operators are required to report daily to BSEE’s hurricane response team. Reporting and monitoring continues during these storms and until operations return to normal following the severe weather. Through an interagency collaboration, US Coast Guard is embedded within BSEE’s hurricane response team to better coordinate response activities should they be required. Current reporting requirements spelled out in 30 CFR 250.192 including: preparations for hurricanes, tropical storms, and severe weather, and reporting requirements can be found here along with more about how BSEE’s hurricane response team operates. You may view the Notice to Lessees by clicking below: Source: BSEEIn the start, I was outspoken with you propecia before and after has changed my life. It has ...

NOAA scientists and partners are launching a number of new unmanned aircraft and water vehicles to collect weather information as part of a coordinated effort to improve hurricane forecasts. Several of these research projects and other NOAA led efforts to improve hurricane forecasting were made possible, in part, because of the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013. The act was passed by Congress and signed by the President in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. It provides $60 billion in funding to multiple agencies for disaster relief. NOAA received $309.7 million to provide technical assistance to those states with coastal and fishery impacts from Sandy, and to improve weather forecasting and weather research and predictive capability to help future preparation, response and recovery from similar events. Unmanned Planes Gather Storm Details As hard as meteorologists work to forecast storms - even flying planes straight into hurricanes to measure wind speed, direction, water vapor and other data - prediction remains an imprecise science. This is particularly true when forecasting hurricane wind speed, known as hurricane intensity. To improve this predictive aspect of our environmental intelligence, NOAA scientists and partners are sending unmanned aircraft into places where it would be unsafe, impossible or ...

NOAA scientists and partners are launching a number of new unmanned aircraft and water vehicles to collect weather information to improve hurricane forecasts

The Port of Virginia is closely monitoring the movement of Hurricane Arthur and is taking precautionary steps to prepare the terminals for any eventuality, in accordance with standard operating procedures. As of 2:00 p.m. today, July 3, the port does not anticipate any changes to its operating hours: Friday, July 4, the port is CLOSED in recognition of Independence Day Saturday, July 5, truck gate hours at NIT and APM Terminals Virginia are scheduled from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Port terminals, including PMT, NNMT, Port of Richmond and the Virginia Inland Port, will reopen on Monday, July 7 The port's team that monitors these types of weather-related events does so in close coordination with the U.S. Coast Guard. The Sector Hampton Roads "Severe Weather Contingency Plan". Port stakeholders to continue to closely monitor the weather, and the port's operating status, via the following information outlets: www.portofvirginia.com www.vit.org http://blog.portofvirginia.com/ www.twitter.com/PortofVirginia Source: Virginia Maritime Association In the starting, I was open with you propecia before and after has changed my existence. It has become much more fun, and now I have to run. Just as it is incredible to sit.

The Port of Virginia is closely monitoring the movement of Hurricane Arthur and is taking precautionary steps to prepare the terminals for any eventuality, in accordance with standard operating procedures.

The UK P&I Club has published a new pocket guide for ship owners and operators on how to prevent improper discharges of oily water from their vessels. Such discharges - which are sometimes undertaken by crew members believing they are acting in their employer's best interests - can prove economically disastrous. The publication follows two high-profile prosecutions against ship operators in the US last year for pumping out oily bilge water, resulting in criminal convictions and fines of US$11.5 million. Both cases were brought under the US Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS), which implements the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL). Annex I of MARPOL requires machinery space bilge water to be processed through a functioning oily water separator before it is discharged, with an oil content meter sampling the effluent to ensure there is no more than 15 parts per million of oil. Under APPS it is a crime in US waters to bypass or trick the oily water separator or oil content meter, or to maintain an inaccurate oil record book. In the recent US cases, which involved a total of five ships, the oily water separators and oil content meters had ...

(Hurricane Katrina - Imahe Credit: NASA) June 1st marked the beginning of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season. In its 2014 outlook, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting that 3-6 hurricanes will form this season. Should a storm enter the Gulf of Mexico and disrupt offshore oil and gas operations, BSEE will post updated activity statistics on www.bsee.gov each day at 2 pm EDT. BSEE has also posted a video describing the bureau's Hurricane Response Team (HRT). In it, members of of the team explain their roles during a storm and how the Gulf of Mexico Region works to protect oil and gas industry personnel and the environment during extreme weather events associated with hurricane season.   Additional information on BSEE's response to hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico can be viewed here: BSEE Hurricane Page BSEE's Hurricane Response Team NOAA's 2014 Atlantic hurricane outlook   Source: BSEE  In the start, I was frank with you propecia before and after has changed my life. It has become much more fun, and now I have to run. Just as it is incredible to sit.

June 1st marked the beginning of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season. In its 2014 outlook, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting that 3-6 hurricanes will form this season

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has published its latest Annual Review of maritime policy and regulatory developments in advance of its Annual General Meeting. The 2014 Annual Review covers the wide-ranging scope of ICS's activities as the world's principal international trade association for ship operators, and can now be downloaded free of charge from the ICS website (www.ics-shipping.org/docs/annualreview2014). Printed copies are being distributed via ICS's 34 member national shipowners' associations, which collectively represent all sectors and trades and over 80% of the world merchant fleet at international regulatory bodies that impact on shipping, including the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The 2014 ICS Annual Review focuses on a number of key issues, including: issues relating to the implementation of new IMO requirements for low sulphur fuel in Emissions Control Areas from January 2015; outstanding concerns surrounding the implementation of the IMO Ballast Water Management Convention; enforcement of the ILO Maritime Labour Convention (MLC); and developments with respect to piracy and hostage taking. In his introduction to the Review, ICS Chairman, Masamichi Morooka, focuses in particular on the need for governments to address questions regarding the implementation of impending environmental regulations: "The shipping industry is about to invest billions of dollars ...

New research will catalyse innovation and ideas to benefit the oil and gas industry for new challenges At the Offshore Technology Conference in Asia, 25 to 28 March, Lloyd's Register Energy will launch a major research programme called Technology & Innovation Radar for the international oil and gas industry. The adoption and development of new technologies is fundamental for the advancement of the oil and gas sector in addressing the global demand for energy and to cope with the environmental challenges in the decades ahead. To help gain a deeper understanding of the market view, Lloyd's Register Energy has invited sector professionals, leading academics and industry bodies to comment on the adoption of key technologies and innovation, the time line for implementation and the impact technological advancements can have upon safety and efficiency. Lloyd's Register Energy is working with an independent research partner to conduct this broad ranging survey to help capture this critical view point of the industry. You can find the survey at www.lr.org/technologyradar Lloyd's Register Energy will publish a management report in June 2014 which will help assess the viability of new technologies, the drive and motivation for innovation, and where key opportunities and challenges exist. The results ...