Reminder email to Respondents

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From: Safety & Environmental Mgmt Program [mailto:[email protected]]

Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:31 PM

To: [REDACTED]

Subject: 2007 OCS Performance Measures Data Submission

To All:

That time of year has come again when we at the Minerals Management Service ask those energy companies engaged in operations on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) of the United States to voluntarily submit their accumulated data from the past year in support of the ongoing OCS Performance Measures program (www.mms.gov/perfmeas). The regular deadline of March 31st will be extended to April 18th this year due to ongoing OMB approval procedures related to Form MMS-131.

As you may already know, during 1997 MMS, the U.S. Coast Guard, and representatives of the OCS oil and gas industry developed a suite of consensus formulas for gauging the industry's safety and environmental performance. These formulas, called the OCS Performance Measures, are used to calculate 20 annual, OCS-wide, performance indices. The indices provide the public with information about safety and environmental performance trends, and they allow OCS lease operators to compare their performance with industry "averages." Your participation in the performance measures data collection effort is voluntary. However, the quality of the information obtained from analyzing the data depends on the widespread support of this effort. Please use the attached form for submission of your enterprise's data.

Thank you for attention and participation; your combined efforts provide an important resource to illustrate to substantial safety accomplishments of the offshore oil and gas industry!

Jarvis B. Abbott

Petroleum Engineer

Department of the Interior

Minerals Management Service

381 Elden St., MS - 4023

Herndon, VA 20170

[email protected]

703.787.1866

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