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Petroleum News
February 23, 2018
Armstrong Energy, ConocoPhillips Alaska and Hilcorp Alaska each surrendered oil and gas leases to the state in late December and January. The Alaska Division of Oil and Gas leasing report shows that Armstrong Energy surrendered three adjacent leases in state waters offshore the National PetroleumÃâà...
Petroleum News
December 29, 2017
Working alongside the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, USGS recently developed a geospatial tool that integrated and analyzed a massive load of geologic information and used this data to estimate the resource potential for six deposit types that host a large array of minerals,Ãâà...
Lexology
October 12, 2017
Since 2013, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife's Division of Migratory Birds, in collaboration with URI and UMass Amherst, has deployed advanced VHF telemetry to track the movement of high-priority bird and bat species, including common terns, American oystercatchers, and certain species protected under theÃâà...
PolitiFact
August 24, 2017
Studies commissioned by the Minerals Management Service, a division of the U.S. Interior Department, concluded that a total of just over 741,000 gallons of oil spilled due to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the outer continental shelf, the technical term for the area offshore. "We have not said that there wereÃâà...
Axios
July 12, 2017
Good morning. Check this out: You're invited to join Axios and NBC News tomorrow at 8 a.m. in downtown D.C to discuss the economy in 2017. "Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd and Axios founder and CEO Jim VandeHei will host conversations with Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and Congressman JebÃâà...
Alaska Dispatch News
June 21, 2017
The last federal Cook Inlet lease sale held, a 2004 auction conducted by the Minerals Management Service, BOEM's predecessor, drew no bids. ... leases was satisfactory, especially compared to last year's state lease sale, which yielded no bids, said Chantal Walsh, director of the Alaska Division of Oil andÃâà...
Law360
June 6, 2017
In February 2017, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana issued a press release[1] advising that, in a plea agreement, an offshore contractor was levied fines of $9.5 million and criminal penalties arising out of a November 2012 explosion on an offshore oil platform owned by Black Elk EnergyÃâà...
CNN
June 9, 2010
The Minerals Management Service, a division of the Interior Department, is the primary federal agency that conducts safety inspections and collects revenue on the more than 3,500 oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico. Before leaving the agency in 2006, he supervised more than 100 auditors, who dig through oilÃâà...
CNN International
May 27, 2010
(CNN) -- The Minerals Management Service, a division within the Interior Department, was a troubled agency long before the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the recent revelations of employee misconduct. The agency -- which oversees U.S. offshore drilling, including the Gulf of Mexico -- has come underÃâà...
New York Times
May 20, 2010
In response to the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the federal agency that oversees offshore drilling will be split into three divisions to separate its energy development, enforcement and revenue collecting functions. The three jobs currently performed by the Minerals Management Service, which collects $13 billionÃâà...
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