Unified Command (Deepwater Horizon oil spill)

National Incident Commander, Admiral Thad Allen provides a briefing to the Unified Area Command in New Orleans on June 28, 2010.

The Unified Command provides Incident Command System/Unified Command (ICS) for coordinating response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

The organization was initially headquartered at the Shell Robert Training and Conference Center[1] in Robert, Louisiana.[2] Robert has 20 streets and one stop light.[2] On June 15, 2010, they announced plans to move its 350 staff into 38,224 square feet (3,551.1 m2) of space to downtown New Orleans, Louisiana near the Superdome.[3]

The group works via consensus on managing the spill and making official statements. Incident commanders from each group report to the National Incident Commander, Admiral Thad Allen, USCG. The Command has Incident Command Centers in Houma, Louisiana; Mobile, Alabama; and Miami, Florida (moving on June 11 from St. Petersburg, Florida).[4][5]

Among the functions is the Joint Information Center, consisting of Public information officers from the various components which coordinates the daily news.[6]

## Components

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Members of the command are:[7]

* BP
* Transocean
* U.S. Coast Guard
* Minerals Management Service
* NOAA
* U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
* U.S. Department of Homeland Security
* U.S. Department of Interior
* U.S. Department of Defense
* U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
* U.S. National Park Service
* U.S. Department of State
* U.S. Geological Survey
* Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
* Occupational Safety and Health Administration

## References

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1. ^ "SEPCo Home Page". Shelltraining.com. Retrieved 2010-06-16.
2. ^ a b "Coastal Crisis press conferences puts Robert, Louisiana on map - WAFB Channel 9, Baton Rouge, LA |". Wafb.com. 2010-04-30. Retrieved 2010-06-16.
3. ^ "Unified Command for the BP Oil Spill | Deepwater Horizon Unified Area Command relocating offices to New Orleans". Deepwaterhorizonresponse.com. 2010-05-08. Retrieved 2010-06-16.
4. ^ [1] [dead link‍]
5. ^ "FEMA: National Situation Update: Friday, May 7, 2010". Fema.gov. Retrieved 2010-06-16.
6. ^ Ryan Erickson (2010-06-12). "Will ICS/NIMS have to be rewritten after Deepwater Horizon?". CGBlog.org. Retrieved 2010-06-16.
7. ^ "Unified Command for the BP Oil Spill | About Us". Deepwaterhorizonresponse.com. Retrieved 2010-06-16.

## External links

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* deepwaterhorizonresponse.com

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Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Events|

* Deepwater Horizon explosion
* Volume and extent
* Efforts to stem the spill
* Timeline
* May 2010
* June 2010
* July 2010
* August 2010

Companies
and
organisations|

| Owners|

* Anadarko Petroleum
* BP
* Mitsui Oil Exploration

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Major contractors|

* Cameron International
* Halliburton
* Nalco Holding Company
* Transocean
* Wild Well Control

Other|

* Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
* Flow Rate Technical Group
* Minerals Management Service
* National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling
* Unified Command
* U. S. Coast Guard
* Worst Case Discharge

People|

| BP|

* Bob Dudley
* Tony Hayward
* Doug Suttles
* Carl-Henric Svanberg
* Darryl Willis

|

MMS|

* S. Elizabeth Birnbaum
* Michael Bromwich
* Chris Oynes

U.S. Coast Guard|

* Thad Allen
* Mary Landry
* Peter Neffenger
* James A. Watson
* Paul F. Zukunft

Other|

* Kenneth Feinberg

Places|

* Macondo Prospect
* Mississippi Canyon
* Perdido Pass

Vessels|

| Drilling|

* Deepwater Horizon

|

Relief ships/rigs|

* Development Driller III
* Discoverer Clear Leader
* Discoverer Enterprise
* GSF Development Driller II
* Helix Producer 1
* Loch Rannoch
* Mighty Servant 3
* Overseas Cascade
* Q4000
* Seacor Lee
* Toisa Pisces
* A Whale
* Pacific Responder
* California Responder

Reactions
and impact|

| Environmental|

* Environmental impact
* Health consequences
* GuLF Study

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Socio-economic|

* Deepwater drilling moratorium
* court case
* Economic effects
* Investigation
* Litigation
* Response fund

Other|

* If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (2010 documentary)
* Deepwater Horizon (2016 film)
* Hornbeck Offshore Services LLC v. Salazar
* Spillcam
* Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge
* United States offshore drilling debate

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* Commons

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