Reporting Companies: Agip, Anadarko/RME, Apache, BHP Petroleum (GOM & Americas), BP, Comstock Offshore, Destin Pipeline, Devon Energy, Dominion Expl. & Prod., El Paso, Energy Partners, ExxonMobil Development, GOM Shelf, Houston Exploration, Hunt Petroleum (AEC), Linder Oil Company, LLOG Exploration Offshore, Magnum Hunter Prod., McMoRan Exploration, Newfield Explo. Co., Ocean Energy, Petro Ventures, Pioneer Natural Resources, Pogo Producing, PRS Offshore, Remington Oil & Gas, Shell E&P, St Mary Energy, Tarpon Operating & Development, Taylor Energy Company, Triumph Energy, Union Oil Co. of California, Vintage Petroleum, Westport Resources and Westport Oil & Gas.

MMS is the federal agency in the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages the nation's oil, natural gas and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf in federal offshore waters. The agency also collects, accounts for and disburses mineral revenues from federal and Indian leases. These revenues totaled nearly $10 billion in 2001 and more than $120 billion since the agency was created in 1982. Annually, nearly $1 billion from those revenues go into the Land and Water Conservation Fund for the acquisition and development of state and federal park and recreation lands.