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The OMDP concept was deeply disturbing to the international community. 

 They resented the exclusionary nature of the program, and felt that their 

 loyal support of IPOD had been brushed aside in favor of narrow national 

 interests in the planning for a follow-on program. It has taken years of 

 patient work to rebuild their confidence. 



Advanced Ocean Drilling Program (AODP) , 1982-83 . AODP, like the DSDP, was 

 to be an internationally-supported, world-wide drilling program addressing 

 a broad range of scientific questions. Scientific objectives and the 

 associated technical requirements were spelled out at the international 

 Conference on Scientific Ocean Drilling (COSOO) in November 1981, 

 immediately after collapse of the OMDP. COSOD strongly endorsed the need 

 for a more capable ship. Borrowing the engineering development work done 

 for OMDP, COSOD proposed conversion of GLOMAR EXPLORER, without riser, as a 

 platform for AODP. Uncertainty about conversion and operational costs of 

 the enormous ship eventually led to abandonment of this plan. The search 

 for an alternative platform capable of meeting COSOD scientific objectives 

 went on. 



Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) , 1983-1993+ . Intellectually, OOP is a 

 direct descendant of IPOD and MW. With the demise of the EXPLORER plan, 

 the scientific community turned to the state-of-the-art ships operating in 

 the commercial offshore drilling fleet. Because of the long depression in 

 oil prices, lease costs for these ships were at an all-time low. A Request 

 for Proposals issued in September 1983 elicited several highly-competitive 

 bids at prices within the program's budget estimates. The final contract 

 for the drillship SEDCO/BP 471 provided for a five year initial charter and 

 options to extend for as many as ten additional years under the same basic 

 terms. 



With the ship issue resolved, the community moved into high gear on other 

 preparations for the program. An entirely new management scheme was 

 developed and set^ in place; the drillship was converted for scientific 

 service; and the scientifically sophisticated and technically advanced 

 program has now begun. Just a few months ago, in January 1985, the ship, 

 informally renamed JOIDES RESOLUTION, set sail on the first expedition of 

 what is expected to be at least a decade-long program. In the new OOP, 

 international collaboration remains central-- scientifically, managerial ly , 

 technically -- to the governance and conduct of the program. 



THE MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE OF THE OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM 



The U.S. National Science Foundation manages ODP on behalf of the 

 participating international community. Contributions of foreign members 

 are deposited in a Trust Fund in the U.S. Treasury, and are drawn upon, 

 along with N.S.F. appropriated funds, to pay for the joint operational 

 costs of the program. These include drillship operations and logistics, 

 downhole logging, engineering development, management, archiving and 

 publications. 



Four membership agreements have been signed so far: Canada, France, West 

 Germany, and Japan. Negotiations, are still in process with the United 

 Kingdom and a consortium of smaller countries organized by the European 

 Science Foundation. A more extensive discussion of international 

 arrangements will be presented later in these remarks. 



