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Zapata Exploration Company

Offshore OCS operator · BSEE code 00464

Zapata Exploration Company is an oil & gas operator on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf. Across 10 incident-enforcement events recorded by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (1987–1993), it received 3 facility shut-ins, 20 component shut-ins, and 15 warnings — BSEE's escalating responses to safety and environmental incidents offshore.

Recent incident-enforcement events

DateRegionWarningsComp. shut-insFac. shut-ins
1993-06-10Gulf of Mexico021
1992-09-21Gulf of Mexico140
1991-09-12Gulf of Mexico010
1990-11-15Gulf of Mexico300
1990-11-06Gulf of Mexico072
1990-09-26Gulf of Mexico110
1989-12-01Gulf of Mexico210
1988-10-04Gulf of Mexico310
1988-06-15Gulf of Mexico300
1987-08-03Gulf of Mexico230

About this data

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) regulates oil and gas operations on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf. When an incident occurs, BSEE can issue warnings (Incidents of Noncompliance) or order component or facility shut-ins — halting production until the operator corrects the problem. This page aggregates BSEE's published incident-enforcement records by operator.

Source: BSEE Data Center. License: CC0 1.0.