Offshore Energy 101: 68,000,000 Acres Revisited

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  August 12th at 10:46 AM  | 

Based on this map (which, by the way, is two years old), does it look to you like the oil and gas industry has not been aggressively exploring the deepwater Gulf of Mexico? That’s where a big chunk of the 68 million acres of non-producing Federal oil and gas leases are located. Even the Washington Post recognizes the fallacy of counting non-producing leases: deepwater tracts | Read More »