The Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI) aims to join government, academia, industry and scientific stakeholders for collaborative research using shared learning and dialogue. OESI is organized under an agreement between the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station and the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and the U.S. Department of Energy.
OESI’s specific objectives are to:
- Increase the energy security of the United States, enable jobs and increase economic activity through responsible and sustainable ocean energy production.
- Develop knowledge, technologies and training that increase the U.S. ability to produce ocean energy resources safely and sustainably.
- Engage the best technologists, managers, facilities, and standard and policy developers who have the greatest chance to achieve our goals in the most efficient, collaborative environment possible.
Volunteering to be an OESI project proposal reviewer allows the nominee's valuable expertise to directly influence the OESI research portfolio. The nominee input helps ensure that every dollar of OESI research has the best chance at positively impacting the safety of offshore energy development in the United States. Collective nominee rankings provide the critical feedback across the Academia-Government-Industry landscape necessary to properly select and fund the right safety related research that can save lives and reduce impacts to the environment.
This form is used by the Ocean Energy Safety Institute's (OESI) operations staff to collected required information from potential research project proposal reviewers from Academia, Government and Industry. This collected information will be used to ensure Subject Matter Expert (SME) review of proposed OESI project proposals and inform a recommended research portfolio. If selected, each reviewer will be expected to:
- Perform complete and consistent review of submitted proposal elements
- Review all proposals submitted under the assigned pathway
- Refrain from disclosing any project proposal information beyond the OESI operations team
- Accept that they are disqualified from participation in any project team proposing within proposal pathways they are assigned to review (Reviewers can propose projects under pathways which they are not reviewing for)
The time commitment of each OESI project proposal reviewer is targeted to be less than one half (1/2) day per pathway area. The review period will last three weeks in which time all assigned reviews must be completed. The reviewer rankings will only be counted once all of the proposals have been reviewed within their assigned pathway area(s). Please indicate your preference for review pathway areas in up to four pathways. The last question asks how many pathway areas the nominee is willing to review.