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http://dx.doi.org/10.7837/kosomes.2011.17.3.257

A Study on the Improvement of National Marine Pollution Response Policy based on the Analysis of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Incident  

Kim, Sang-Woon (Korea Coast Guard Headquarters)
Lim, Chang-Soo (Korea Coast Guard Headquarters)
Lee, Wan-Sub (Korea Coast Guard Headquarters)
Ha, Chang-Woo (Korea Coast Guard Headquarters)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety / v.17, no.3, 2011 , pp. 257-264 More about this Journal
Abstract
On April 20, 2010, semi-submersible offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon was exploded and sank, and 4.9 million barrels(about 778 thousand tons) of crude oil was spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. As more than one year has been passed since the incident, a lot of investigation reports and lessons learned have been made public and also a lot more will be released soon. This paper studies the final report of the National Commission on "the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling", which was organized by the executive directive of U.S. President Barack Obama, and the interim report of Joint Investigation team of U.S. Coast Guard and BOEMRE of "Report of Investigation into the Circumstances Surrounding the Explosion, Fire, Sinking and Loss of Eleven Members Aboard the Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Deepwater Horizon". The review is focused on the response to the oil spill. And the paper suggests how to improve national marine pollution response policy. In the paper, the Korean governments is suggested to reinforce the capability for instructing and supervising the responsible party's source control measures, to review how to introduce in-situ burning and vessel of opportunity program into our country, and to continue monitoring on the progress of developments of R&D projects related to oil spill response in the U.S..
Keywords
Deepwater Horizon; National Marine Pollution Response Policy; U.S. Coast Guard; Bureau of Ocean Energy; Regulation and Enforcement; Vessel of opportunity program;
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