Happy Hump Day aka Wednesday!
There’s been a
lot going on in the U. S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
(BOEM) last week, when they announced moving forward with the offshore oil and
gas leases as they agreed in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Did anyone happen to read The Houston
Chronicle’s Business Section on September 30, 2023, their article titled, “Offshore
oil, gas lease sales cut to fewest in U.S. History”? In the article, it goes on to speak about the
number of oil and gas lease sales the Department of Interior announced for the
next five years in the Gulf of Mexico.
The BOEM announced there will be three offshore oil and gas lease sales for
the Gulf of Mexico in 2025, 2027, and 2029.
This number has to do with the agreement which was made to create 30 gigawatts
of offshore wind farms by 2030 in the U.S.’s strive to have a clean energy future
and help us keep our energy independence.
The administration’s decision
came from a comment period for the Proposed National Outer Shelf Oil and Gas
Leasing Program and Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for
the 2024-2029 National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program (National
OSC Program) where 760,000 comments were collected. The National OCS Program’s Final Program and the Final EIS will be published in the
Federal Registrar and will then be under a minimum 60-day waiting period
before the final program is approved. If
you would like to read more of The Houston Chronicle’s article on
PressReader, please click the link: PressReader.com
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If you would
like to see what the DOI has to say about oil and gas lease sales; please click
the link: https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/reflecting-americas-rapid-and-accelerating-shift-clean-energy-interior-department.
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We hope you have a wonderful evening and a great rest of
your week!
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