Reporting Companies: Agip, Amerada Hess, Anadarko/RME, Apache, BHP Petroleum, BP, Burlington Resources, Callon, Calpine, Century, ChevronTexaco, Contour, Denbury, Dominion, Dunhill, El Paso, EOG Resources, ExxonMobil, Fairways, Forest, GOM Shelf, Gryphon, Houston Exploration, Hunt, JM Huber, Kerr McGee, LLOG, Magnum Hunter, Marathon, Maritech, McMoRan, Nexen, Nippon, Panaco, Petro Ventures, Pogo, PRS Offshore, Ridgelake Energy, Samedan, Seneca, Shell E&P, Tarpon, Torch, TotalFinaElf, Transworld, Tri Union, Union Oil Co. of CA, Walter, Westport, William Field Services, William G. Helis, and W&T

NOTE: The following companies reported statistics on October 2, 2002, but not today: ATP, BT Operating, Comstock, ConocoPhillips, Devon, Energy Partners, Energy Resource, Linder, Merit Energy, Millennium, NCX, Ocean Energy, Pioneer, St. Mary, Stone, and Vintage. (Assuming the companies might be encountering problems transmitting the data, yesterday’s statistics were used and included in the statistics listed above.)

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.