The head of the federal agency charged with overseeing offshore petroleum drilling visited the Cullen College this week to recruit undergraduate and graduate students to its enforcement team.
Michael Bromwich, director of the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, spoke to students about the internships and careers engineers can pursue with the agency.
In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, he said, BOEMRE is growing its staff and expanding its enforcement activities. This, combined with the coming retirements of many members of the agency’s existing enforcement team, will require BOEMRE to hire a significant number of engineers from multiple disciplines.
“You come to our agency now, you can be part of something historically significant. That is the remaking of the agency that is responsible for ensuring the safety and the environmental soundness of energy exploration on the outer continental shelf. That is a huge and important responsibility and a hugely important piece of public service,” he said.
The agency currently has openings for engineering positions and summer interns at all five of its gulf coast regional offices. Applications for internship positions are being accepted through November 4th at www.gomr.boemre.gov/homepg/recruit/current_vacancies.html.