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1995 Law Allows Producers to Save $18 Billion in Royalties

Nov 13, 2019 | Drill Deeper Blog

On October 24, 2019, the United States Government Accountability Office released a report concluding that a decades-old law has allowed oil companies to drill under federal leases without paying royalties.  In 1995, Congress passed the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act to...

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