- Maximum of 11 lease sales
- Maximum of one sale (Cook Inlet) outside the Gulf of Mexico
- Maximum of one GoM sale in 2023
- Issued late Friday on 4th of July weekend
- Press release
- Details
- EIS and other information
- GoM production forecast
- highly optimistic
- inconsistent with the more realistic EIA forecast
- “forecast” for 2022 is not achievable
Archive for July, 2022
Proposed 5-Year OCS Leasing Program issued
Posted in Alaska, energy policy, Gulf of Mexico, Offshore Energy - General, tagged 5 year leasing plan, BOEM, Cook Inlet, DOI, Gulf of Mexico on July 2, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Happy Canada Day to our friends up north…
Posted in Canada, Offshore Energy - General, Uncategorized, tagged Canada Day, Newfoundland, offshore oil on July 1, 2022| Leave a Comment »
… especially those in Newfoundland where the only offshore oil and gas operations in the N. American Atlantic are being conducted.
The June 30, 2022 deadline for releasing the Proposed OCS Leasing Program has been missed without explanation
Posted in energy policy, Gulf of Mexico, Offshore Energy - General, tagged 5 year leasing plan, DOI, offshore oil and gas on July 1, 2022| Leave a Comment »
WASHINGTON (May 19, 2022) — During testimony before the U.S Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources today, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland confirmed that, despite delays in implementation from the previous Administration, the Interior Department will release the Proposed Program – the next step in the five-year offshore energy planning process – by June 30, 2022, which is the expiration of the current program. A Proposed Program is not a decision to issue specific leases or to authorize any drilling or development.
DOI
Bud's Offshore Energy (BOE) 