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What is SEMP?

The SEMP combines a variety offshore operating programs into a single, integrated, flexible, always-improving management scheme. The SEMP is a voluntary complement to compliance with the MMS operating regulations.  An OCS operator's SEMP specifies how to:

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Operate and maintain facility equipment;

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Identify and mitigate safety and environmental hazards;

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Change operating equipment, processes, and personnel;

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Respond to and investigate accidents, upsets, and "near misses;"

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Purchase equipment and supplies;

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Work with contractors;

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Train personnel; and

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Review the SEMP to ensure it works and make it better.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) has created Recommended Practices for Development of a Safety and Environmental Management Plan for OCS Operations and Facilities (RP75).  The RP75 is industry's response to the MMS call for SEMP.  It is a detailed guide for building a SEMP. Cooperation among the API, the Offshore Operator's Committee, MMS, and others resulted in RP75.  From the MMS perspective, doing RP75 is doing SEMP.


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