https://www.usa.gov/copyrighted-government-workshttps://www.rawpixel.com/image/4031816Edit ImageSaveSaveEditCropCustom TextIn the last ten years, Interior has been making oil production on the Outer Continental Shelf safer. Efforts to prevent another catastrophe like Deepwater Horizon are at the core of the missions of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement has been the lead federal agency charged with improving safety and ensuring environmental protection related to the offshore energy industry - primarily oil and natural gas - on the Outer Continental Shelf. BSEE vigorously regulates oversight of worker safety, emergency preparedness, environmental compliance and conservation of resources. The bureau’s work includes conducting thousands of announced and unannounced inspections, developing safer technologies, mandating that each operator establish and follow their Safety and Environmental Management System, and carrying out investigations when serious incidents do occur.Inspecting Gulf of Mexico energy operations. Photo by Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. Original public domain image from FlickrMorePublic DomainFree CCO U.S. Government image for Personal and Business useInfoView CC0 LicenseEditorial use only JPEGSmall JPEG 1200 x 974 px | 300 dpiLarge JPEG 2840 x 2304 px | 300 dpiFree DownloadIn the last ten years, Interior has been making oil production on the Outer Continental Shelf safer. Efforts to prevent another catastrophe like Deepwater Horizon are at the core of the missions of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement has been the lead federal agency charged with improving safety and ensuring environmental protection related to the offshore energy industry - primarily oil and natural gas - on the Outer Continental Shelf. BSEE vigorously regulates oversight of worker safety, emergency preparedness, environmental compliance and conservation of resources. The bureau’s work includes conducting thousands of announced and unannounced inspections, developing safer technologies, mandating that each operator establish and follow their Safety and Environmental Management System, and carrying out investigations when serious incidents do occur.Inspecting Gulf of Mexico energy operations. Photo by Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. Original public domain image from FlickrMore