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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), formerly known as the Minerals Management Service (MMS), was an agency of the United States Department of the Interior that managed the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf (OCS).
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NEW ORLEANS -- The Coast Guard discovered Saturday that oil is leaking from the damaged well that fed a massive rig that exploded this week off Louisiana's coast, while bad weather halted efforts to clean up the mess that threatens the area's fragile marine ecosystem.
For days, the Coast Guard has said no oil appeared to be escaping from the well head on the ocean floor. Rear Adm. Mary Landry said the leak was a new discovery but could have begun when the rig sank on Thursday, two days after the initial explosion."We thought what we were dealing with as of yesterday was a surface residual (oil) from the mobile offshore drilling unit," Landry said. "In addition to that is oil emanating from the well. It is a big change from yesterday ... This is a very serious spill, absolutely."Coast Guard and company officials estimate that as much as 1,000 barrels -- or 42,000 gallons -- of oil is leaking each day after studying information from remotely operated vehicles and the size of the oil slick...A clearly frustrated President Obama on Friday said that the system for preventing accidents like the April 20 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico "failed badly," while ...
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Obama comments on response to BP oil leak, future of offshore drilling
Obama comments on response to BP oil leak, future of offshore drilling
An appeals court will decide whether federal regulators conducted adequate environmental studies before selling $2.7 billion in petroleum leases off Alaska's northwe...
WASHINGTON (AP) — At a 2005 workshop, a senior official in the U.S. government's Minerals Management Service raised concerns about ultra-deepwater drilling and inclu...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The director of the Minerals Management Service in Alaska is apologizing to colleagues for having a cake at a recent meeting with the words ...
Elizabeth Birnbaum, director of the embattled U.S. Minerals Management Service , was fired Thursday in the wake of reports of mismanagement in the agency responsible...
Shell Oil President Marvin Odum has faith that his company can develop vast reserves in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's northwest coast. But he'd like to get on with ex...
Ties between offshore oil and gas companies and the agency that regulates them persist, nearly a year after the Obama administration announced an overhaul of ethics ...
A key federal report into what caused the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history was being readied for release as early as Wednesday amid revelations that BP made ...
Across an often contentious three-hour congressional hearing Thursday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson vigorously defended her agency's po...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it will review environmental procedures followed by the Minerals Management Service for offshore drilling.Interior Se...
President Obama on Saturday reassured Prime Minister David Cameron that his frustration over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not an attack on Britain . But a ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said Friday it is tightening procedures at the agency that grants offshore drilling permits to ensure it follows all envir...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Choppy seas, strong winds and rain halted Saturday's cleanup of an oil spill around the massive oil drilling rig that exploded and toppled into th...
HOUSTON (AP) — The company whose drilling triggered the Gulf of Mexico oil spill also owns a rig that operated with incomplete and inaccurate engineering documents, ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal agency that oversees offshore oil drilling identified so many accidents in a study published last year that officials were moving to cre...
NEW ORLEANS -- Coast Guard officials on Friday suspended the three-day search for 11 workers missing since an explosion rocked an offshore oil rig, saying they belie...
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