BSEE solicits oil spill response research projects
Jan. 16, 2015
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is soliciting proposals for oil spill response research projects and will invest up to $6 million to support these projects in 2015.
Offshore staff
WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is soliciting proposals for oil spill response research projects and will invest up to $6 million to support these projects in 2015.
BSEE called for white papers focusing specifically on the following topic areas for proposed research covering oil spill response operations on the US OCS.
Topics should be limited to the following:
Innovative methods to remove surface oil under arctic conditions
Decanting recovered oil at sea
Quantifying in-situ burn efficiency
Innovative new uses of chemical herders to enhance oil spill mitigation efforts
Develop an innovative dispersant spray drift model
Determine the effect of various deep-ocean conditions on dispersant effectiveness
Evaluate dispersant effectiveness of subsea applications in ocean brine pools.
The deadline for submitting white papers is Feb. 9, 2015. More information can be found by searching for BSEE solicitation E15PS00027 onwww.fbo.gov.
