Happy Tuesday!
We admit Department of
Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) announcement on their
oil and gas lease sales seemed to go with our Blog we posted yesterday on offshore
wind energy. We did say, if we heard
anything else on the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) we would let you know. This
goes with our previous blogs on the BOEM including one we did in
early May of this year on there may be a problem with the 2025 Offshore Oil and
Gas Lease Sale, if the EIS takes 18 months. Well, it looks like they were off base with the
timeline and here’s the latest.
Did anyone
happen to read gCaptain Daily Newsletter on December 10, 2024, their
article titled, “BOEM’s Draft EIS Sets the Stage for the GoM Oil Leasing in a
Shifting Energy Landscape”? The article speaks
in regard to the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management’s (BOEM) has published its Draft Programmatic Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) for the GoM oil and gas lease sales. Back at
the end of 2023 the BOEM released its 2024-2029 National Outer Continental Shelf (OSC) Oil and Gas Leasing Program and posted it on the Federal Register. The OSC Program reported the fewest number of
oil and gas lease sales during a five-year period and only three areas of the
GoM will be available. The Draft of the
Programmatic EIS for the GoM will influence future offshore lease sales and offer
minimum domain of around 60 million acres which was a requirement to have
future offshore wind energy lease sales. The Draft of the EIS will be posted
and up for its comment period of 45 days soon and according to the BOEM’s
announcement there will be 3 virtual meetings in January. Well, it will be interesting to see if and how
this will change with the incoming President.
If we hear anything else interesting from the BOEM on the GOM, we
will let you know. If you would like to
read more of gCaptain’s article, please click the link: BOEM's Draft EIS Sets the Stage for GoM Oil Leasing in a Shifting Energy Landscape.
If you would
like information on the BOEM’s activities for the Gulf of Mexico and its
Oil and Gas Lease Sales or would like to register to speak at the virtual
meetings; please click the link: BOEM Announces Next Steps for Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Leasing Program | Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
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like help in looking into how to transport your liquid product efficiently and
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We hope you have a wonderful evening and a great week! Hope
you are counting down until Christmas and have all your shopping and decorating
completed.
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