Trump extends offshore drilling moratorium: NOIA not happy

Campaigning in Florida this week, President Donald Trump announced an extension of moratorium on offshore drilling on Florida’s Gulf Coast and an expansion of it to Florida’s Atlantic Coast, as well as

GoM lease sale generates $160 million in high bids

Yesterday’s region-wide Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 253 generated $159,386,761 in high bids for 151 tracts covering 835,006 acres in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. A total of 27 companies

GoM Lease Sale 249 bidders still focused on deepwater

AUGUST 16, 2017 — U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today announced that the region-wide Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 249 generated $121,143,055 in high bids for 90 tracts covering 508,096

Obama permanent drilling bans could be short lived

DECEMBER 21, 2016 —  Oil and gas industry voices are already calling on the incoming Trump administration to reverse “permanent” restrictions on drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic announced yesterday by President