Michael Bromwich, who now leads the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), has been tapped to take over the newly formed Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) until a permanent director is named. Bromwich’s top assistant, BOEMRE Senior Adviser Tommy P. Beaudreau will lead the new Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). Bromwich and Beaudreau have been involved in the creation of the two new bureaus, which are to be officially established on Oct. 1. Bromwich agreed to serve as the BSEE chief, and Interior said it has launched “an aggressive, nationwide recruitment effort to find a permanent director.” Beaudreau would be the permanent BOEM director. Salazar’s Secretarial Order in 2010 divided the former Minerals Management Service into the BSEE, BOEM and the Office of Natural Resources Revenue. MMS was renamed BOEMRE, and ONRR now operates under Interior’s Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget. ONRR manages revenues associated with federal offshore and federal and American Indian onshore mineral leases, as well as revenues received as a result of offshore renewable energy efforts. BSEE is to handle inspections, enforcement and safety of offshore oil and gas operations while BOEM is to be responsible for energy leasing and planning on the Outer Continental Shelf.

San Diego-based Sempra Energy said it will elevate its current CFO Mark Snell to president, effective Oct. 1, and consolidate its natural gas infrastructure businesses into U.S. and international units. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) will no longer be a separate operating unit. Effective at the start of next year, Sempra Generation, Sempra Pipelines & Storage, and Sempra LNG will be consolidated into two new operating units reporting to Snell — Sempra International and Sempra U.S. Gas & Power. All of Sempra’s now separate international and LNG operations will be part of the new international unit headed by George Liparidis, current CEO at the pipeline/storage unit. Aside from its two major California utilities, U.S. gas and electric generation operations will be part of the new domestic gas/power unit headed by Jeffrey Martin, the current CEO at Sempra Generation. Replacing Snell, 55, as executive vice president and CFO will be Joseph Householder, the current treasurer/chief accounting officer. Snell and Householder will both report to newly named CEO Debra Reed, who was elevated to the top spot in June. Former CEO Donald Felsinger continues as executive chairman until his planned retirement next year, and current President/COO Neal Schmale retires Nov. 1.

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