OCS Scientific Committee Meeting Summary

Meeting Summary - Full text

1. MMS Director’s Report
2. Associate Director’s Presentation
3. Director, U.S. Geological Survey Presentation
4. National Ocean Conference Report: Actions and Initiatives
   1. OCS Moratoria Extension
   2. National Ocean Conference Initiatives
5. Legislative Update
6. Presentation by Mr. Don Oltz of the OCS Policy Committee
7. Committee Roundtable on Future Role
8. Deepwater Session
   Background
   1. Deepwater Subcommittee Report on Gulf of Mexico Research Program
   2. Environmental Issues
      1. Technical, Safety and Environmental Issues of Floating Production, Storage and Offloading Systems (FPSOs)
      2. Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading Systems: Spill Response Issues: MMS Perspective
      3. Synthetic Drilling Muds. New Technologies in Drilling: the Advent of Synthetic-Based Muds
      4. Deepwater Oil Spills
      5. Port Facilities and Infrastructure
      6. The Environmental Component of the MMS Technical Information Management System: Design and Implementation
      7. Subcommittee Overviews and Recommendations
9. OCS Scientific Committee Business
   

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