Lease Sale 257 Continues to Tease Us

Lease Sale 257 Continues to Tease Us

The uncertainty of Lease Sale 257 continues.  On November 17, 2021, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held the eighth lease sale under the 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program.  Marianna Knister’s earlier Drill Deeper blog post...

BOEM Proposes Beaufort Sea Lease Sale for 2019

In late March, the United States Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued a Call for Information and Nominations for a proposed sale in the Beaufort Sea Planning area in late 2019.  The Beaufort Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean north of the Northwest...

Cynthia Nicholson Quoted in New Orleans CityBusiness

Cynthia Nicholson was quoted recently in the New Orleans CityBusiness article, “Offshore independents struggle with decommissioning requirements”.  The article pinpoints independent oil producers struggle to survive given the challenge of complying with new federal...