Following recommendations in the National Offshore Safety Advisory Committee Production Subcommittee Final Report in March 2018, the US Coast Guard eliminated the need for submissions of service life extension requests to the USCG, as previously outlined in D8 Policy Letter 01-2016.
These submissions are used to determine if an oil and gas floating OCS facility is suitable to remain on site and operate beyond its initial permitted design life.
We finalized discussions between Coast Guard Marine Safety Center, D8 OCS OCMI staff, OCS National Center of Expertise (NCOE) staff and BSEE leaders to clarify, streamline and eliminate redundancies between our two agencies related to evaluating service life extension requests,
…the USCG explained.
As a result of those discussions, industry no longer needs to submit service life extension requests to the Coast Guard as previously outlined in D8 Policy Letter 01-2016.
BSEE will be the primary recipient for these requests and the Coast Guard will assist BSEE’s review on a case by case basis.
In regard to structures, the USCG will have a follow-on joint discussion related to structural modifications, repair proposals, and in-service inspection plans and could potentially revise industry submissions on these topics as well.
