USCG to use risk-based targeting to increase oversight of foreign mobile offshore drilling units on U.S. Outer Continental Shelf

摘要

To complement its existing safety inspection regime for foreign-flagged vessels operating in U.S. waters, the U.S. Coast Guard announced an additional layer of risk-based safety oversight for mobile offshore drilling units (MODUs) as part of an on-going review of marine safety policies following the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion, fire, and subsequent oil spill. Currently, U.S.