Draft leasing program offers 90% of OCS
OGJ Exploration NewsThe US Department of the Interior issued a draft proposed 2019-24 US Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing program which would make more than 90% of the nation’s federal offshore acreage available and schedule the largest number of lease sales there in history. The current 2017-22 program enacted late in the Obama administration put 94% of the OCS off-limits to oil and gas activity, DOI officials noted.
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