%0 Journal Article %T Deepwater horizon disaster and influence on offshore industry regulations %A NEAGU Ionu£¿ Drago£¿ %J Journal of Engineering Studies and Research %D 2011 %I Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau %X The article presents the risk management analysis of Deepwater Horizon drilling rig into the context of international trend in exploiting oil and gas reserves in high water depth. Legislation influence in oil and gas industry and competent on site risk management entities added value for maintaining risk as low as possible considering development of offshore industry are also presented. %K Deepwater Horizon %K blowout %K risk analysis %K offshore %K accidents aftermath %U http://pubs.ub.ro/?pg=revues&rev=jesr&num=201102&vol=17&aid=3373