S. Elizabeth ( Liz ) Birnbaum served as the Director of the then named Minerals Management Service from July 15 , 2009 to her resignation on May 27 , 2010 amidst the Deepwater Horizon oil spill . On June 15 , 2010 President Obama named Michael R. Bromwich , a former federal prosecutor and inspector general for the Justice Department , to head up efforts to restructure BOEMRE . Bob Abbey , then director of the Bureau of Land Management , took over as Acting Director of BOEMRE until his replacement could be confirmed . Amidst efforts to reorganize the beleaguered agency , on June 21 , 2010 , Bromwich was sworn in as BOEMRE 's new director , and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar issued a Secretarial Order that renamed the Minerals Management Service the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management , Regulation and Enforcement . Almost a year later , William K. Reilly , who co-chaired the commission charged with investigating the Horizon blowout , was quoted as saying " they changed the name , but all the people are the same " and " it 's embarrassing " in reference to the current situation
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Minerals Management Service