Happy Monday and welcome back to another week of ESC News Blog.
We ran into something interesting
catching up on our emails which is in line with a blog we wrote back at the end
of August 2023. We wrote about the Department
of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) first Gulf of
Mexico’s wind lease auction, and the modest interest they received for the
tracts they offered; please check it out, if you are interested to learn about
the lease auction.
Did anyone happen
to receive the News Release from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
on July 26, 2024, their news release titled, “BOEM Announces Next Steps for
Offshore Wind in Gulf of Mexico”? In the
news release it speaks about the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean
Energy Management’s (BOEM) had unconventional request from Hecate Energy
Gulf Wind LLC (Hecate Energy) concerning the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the
Gulf of Mexico off the coast of southeast Texas for a lease to set up offshore
wind. The BOEM had previously
acknowledge the tracts requested as possible areas for offshore Wind Energy
Areas (WEA) back in 2021. The areas of
interest include WEA Option C has 74,113 acres; WEA Option D has 68,239 acres the
two areas would have a total of 142,352 acres.
Due to the interest for this
acreage the BOEM is obliged by the OCS Lands Act to post a Request for Competitive
Interest (RFCI) and needs to pursue comments and feedback on the possible
interest of other parties to this offshore acreage; the RFCI was posted at the
end of July 2024. Depending on what happens
in the RFCI the BOEM will move to either lease to Hecate Energy, or they will move
forward with an offshore wind lease auction open to all qualified companies at
a later time. If you would like to read
more of the BOEM’s news release,
please click the link: BOEM Announces Next Steps for Offshore Wind in Gulf of Mexico | Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
If you would
like to more information on the BOEM’s RFCI; please click the link: Regulations.gov.
If you would
like information on the BOEM’s activities for the Gulf of Mexico; please
click the link: Gulf of Mexico Activities | Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (boem.gov)
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We hope you have a wonderful evening and a great week!
**Disclaimer: Please see the New Release from the BOEM
for exact information. **