Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Today is the day that the federal government plans to hold their auction for leases of about 20 million acres of ocean bottom to be used for oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico. The tracts range from 9 to up to 250 miles offshore in the Western portion of the Gulf of Mexico...

WASHINGTON, DC – House Natural Resources Committee Member Jeff Landry (LA-03) issued the following opening statement at today’s Full Committee Oversight Hearing on Department of Interior spending and the President’s FY2012 budget request:

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal judge in New Orleans who overturned the Obama administration's moratorium on deepwater drilling after the Gulf oil spill has ordered the administration to act on two more drilling permit applications.

(Washington, D.C.)   – U.S. Sen. David Vitter made the following statement regarding the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) announcement of its approval of the first deepwater drilling permit since the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

WASHINGTON – United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today issued the following statement in response to U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman’s order that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) must act within 30 days on five pending applications for oil and gas drilling permits: