Abstract
On April 20, 2010, semi-submersible offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon was exploded and sank, and 4.9 million barrels(about 778 thousand tons) of crude oil was spilled into Gulf of Mexico. As more than one year has been passed since incident, a lot of investigation reports and lessons learned have been made public and also a lot more will be released soon. This paper studies final report of National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, which was organized by executive directive of U.S. President Barack Obama, and interim report of Joint Investigation team of U.S. Coast Guard and BOEMRE of Report of Investigation into Circumstances Surrounding Explosion, Fire, Sinking and Loss of Eleven Members Aboard Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Deepwater Horizon. The review is focused on response to oil spill. And paper suggests how to improve national marine pollution response policy. In paper, Korean governments is suggested to reinforce capability for instructing and supervising responsible party`s source control measures, to review how to introduce in-situ burning and vessel of opportunity program into our country, and to continue monitoring on progress of developments of R&D projects related to oil spill response in U.S..
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