Oil and Gas and Sulfur Operations in the Outer Continental Shelf-Revisions to the 2023 Blowout Preventer Systems and Well Control Rule

What it does

The Department of the Interior (DOI or Department), through the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), is revising certain regulatory provisions published in the 2023 final well control rule for drilling, workover, completion, and decommissioning operations. BSEE is proposing revisions to clarify certain reporting and recordkeeping requirements. This rule would reduce duplicative submissions and provide consistency and clarity of information available for BSEE review.

The Safety and Environmental Enforcement Bureau's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What it would change

1 part of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

30 CFR 250

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 1014-AA63 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

To ensure your comments are considered, BSEE must receive your comments on this proposed rule by March 25, 2026. BSEE may not fully consider comments received after this date. Though this proposed rule does not affect the currently approved information collection, you may submit comments to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on the information collection burden under control number 1014-0028 by March 25, 2026. The deadline for comments on the information collection burden does not affect the deadline for the public to comment to BSEE on the proposed regulations.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket BSEE-2026-0100 on Regulations.gov
• Title 30 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register