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US details new offshore leasing program

Jan 27, 2015

The US Department of the Interior today (Tuesday) announced details of a proposed oil and gas leasing program for 2017-2022. US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell (pictured, right, with President Obama) and Bureau of Ocean Energy…

BOEM increases prediction on Chukchi Sea oil & gas lease sale

Nov 03, 2014

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released the draft supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) that predicts a higher exploration and production scenario than before for the Chukchi Sea Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale 193…

BOEM weighs Cook Inlet lease sale

Oct 22, 2014

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is inching closer to an oil and gas lease sale in the Cook Inlet offshore Alaska. The agency said it intends to publish an environmental impact statement (EIS) in the federal register on 23 October 2014 for Sale 244…

BOEM announces GOM lease sale

Oct 16, 2014

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) first Gulf of Mexico lease sale in 2015 will feature almost 44 million acres off Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, encompassing all available unleased acreage in the Central Gulf of Mexico planning area…

GOM lease sale attracts US$110M in bids

Aug 20, 2014

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) opened the Gulf of Mexico Western Planning Area Lease Sale 238 in New Orleans on 20 August 2014, offering  21.6 million acres for oil and gas exploration and development offshore Texas. The sale attracted more than US$109…

BOEM offers US-Mex boundary blocks in Sale 238

Jul 17, 2014

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Acting Director Walter Cruickshank today announced that the bureau will offer more than 21 million acres offshore Texas for oil and gas exploration and development in a lease sale that will include…

GOM lease sale to include areas within Transboundary

Apr 15, 2014

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will offer more than 21 million acres offshore Texas for oil and gas exploration and development in a lease sale that will include all available unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico planning area…

BOEM announces Central GoM lease sale

Oct 25, 2013

As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced that it will hold Gulf of Mexico Central…

Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 233: 21 million acres offered

Jul 30, 2013

The US Dept. of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced final details for the Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 233. The sale will take place on August 28 and will cover about 20.7 million acres off Texas for oil and gas exploration and development…

Australia’s DMP announces new lease sale off Western Australia state

Jul 10, 2013

Australian bid round Australia’s Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) announced a new lease sale off Western Australia state. Six licenses, four onshore and two offshore, are being placed on the auction block. The offshore areas are…

Gulf of Mexico, Lease Sale 227

May 15, 2013

Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 227, held in this past March in New Orleans, drew US$1.2 billion in high bids for tracts spanning the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Statoil was the highest bidder on 15 leases, while Apache acquired nine shallow water and five deepwater leases.

BOEM completes SEIS review

Apr 11, 2013

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has released a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for proposed oil and gas Lease Sales 233 and 231, the third and fourth sales scheduled in the current 2012-2017 Five Year Program.(Image…

Gulf of Mexico lease sale

Mar 27, 2013

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and US Department of the Interior announced that Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 227 will offer 28.6 million acres off Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. The sale will take place this month in New Orleans…

GOM lease sale raises US$1.2B

Mar 21, 2013

The latest Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 227 held Wednesday drew $1.2 billion in high bids for tracts spanning the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Statoil was the highest bidder on 15 leases, the company announced on 20 March 2013…

Virginia sale to test Atlantic interest

May 20, 2010

The scheduled 2012 lease sale offshore Virginia will proceed, even without the environmental impact studies necessary to allow oil & gas exploration in place, according to MMS director Liz Burnham.The sale – the first on the US Atlantic OCS…

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