As Chief of Offshore Regulatory Programs, Morris will be responsible for developing and maintaining up-to-date regulations, policies, standards and guidelines for best available and safest practices that govern industry’s offshore operations nationwide and will maintain oversight of the bureau’s compliance activities and assure appropriate and effective enforcement actions.

 

Morris comes to BSEE most recently from the Energy Information Administration where he initially served as Director of the Reserves and Production Division and was subsequently responsible for the Oil and Gas Supply & Financial Statistics Team. Prior to joining EIA, Morris was a member of the American Petroleum Institute's executive staff where he served as the Group Director for Upstream and Industry Operations.  Before joining API, he worked as a petroleum engineer with MMS and with private industry.