Gulf of Mexico
WASHINGTON — Four new offshore wind energy areas with a combined potential to power more than 3 million homes have been finalized as ready to lease by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. The announcement on Friday follows the first-ever... Read More
NEW ORLEANS — Federal regulators with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management are moving ahead with a Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale despite the fact it remains the subject of ongoing litigation. At present, the plan is... Read More
LAKE CHARLES, La. — A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to proceed with a pending oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico without last-minute restrictions added to protect an endangered species of whale. U.S. District... Read More
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will hold the first-ever offshore wind energy lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 29. According to the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the areas to be auctioned have the potential... Read More
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is proposing changes to the federal financial assurance requirements for oil and gas companies to protect taxpayers from the costs of decommissioning offshore oil wells and infrastructure no longer in use. By law, oil and... Read More
NEW ORLEANS — Low water at the mouth of the Mississippi River has the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers building a “sill” or underwater levee to prevent salt water from intruding into the drinking water supply of New Orleans and... Read More
NEW ORLEANS — Federal regulators are one step closer to authorizing the first-ever offshore wind energy lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico having concluded that such development activity will have no significant impacts on the environment. The Bureau of... Read More
WASHINGTON — A hard fought legal challenge to a 2021 oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico was rendered moot by the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act last year, the U.S. Circuit Court for the District... Read More
WASHINGTON — Four coastal states in the southeast — Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas — will share in a windfall of over $353 million in additional energy revenues due to increased production and market trends in the 2022 fiscal year.... Read More
AVONDALE, La. — Shell, one of the world’s largest oil companies, is partnering with a Louisiana-based expert in wind turbine technology to create the Shell Gulf Wind Technology Accelerator, a program aimed at addressing the challenging wind conditions in the... Read More
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is seeking to move forward with the first-ever lease sale for offshore wind power development in the Gulf of Mexico. In an announcement on Wednesday, the Interior Department released a proposed lease sales notice for... Read More
NEW ORLEANS — Federal regulators have finalized the designation of two wind energy areas in the Gulf of Mexico they say have the potential to produce enough clean energy to power nearly 3 million homes annually. The designation of the... Read More
WASHINGTON — The House has passed a bipartisan amendment to the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act submitted by Rep. Deborah Ross, D-N.C., that rolls back former President Donald Trump’s 10-year moratorium on offshore energy leases off the Atlantic coast. For... Read More
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The question of whether lawsuits blaming big oil companies for loss of vulnerable Louisiana coastal wetlands will be tried in state courts, as local parish governments want, or in federal courts, as the oil companies want,... Read More
It was a scene that repeated itself at intersection after intersection in the District and surrounding communities in Virginia and Maryland this past weekend. Desperate-faced drivers, their knuckles taut against their steering wheels, slowly moving past lonely gas pumps and... Read More
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Friday cancelled an oil and gas exploration lease sale for a sizable swath of the Gulf of Mexico. Lease Sale 257, which was scheduled to be live-streamed from New Orleans on March 17,... Read More
WASHINGTON - Last week's sales of Gulf of Mexico leases for oil and gas exploration generated over $159 million in high bids for 151 tracts covering 835,000 acres in federal waters, the Interior Department reports. A total of 27 companies... Read More
