[Federal Register: April 17, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 74)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Minerals Management Service
Historical Royalty and Production Data
AGENCY: Minerals Management Service (MMS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: MMS implemented a new financial management system on November
1, 2001. As part of the implementation process, royalty and production
data reported to our predecessor system was transferred to the new
system. Reporters will need this information to make accurate
adjustments and corrections to previously reported data. This notice
informs reporters where and how they may obtain their historical
royalty and production data.
DATES: This information is available April 17, 2002.
ADDRESSES: To request access to historical data via the Internet, send
a completed System Access Request Form (SARF) to Minerals Management
Service, Attention: Information Technology Center, Policy and Security
Group, P.O. Box 25165, Mail Stop 340G4, Denver, CO 80225. To request
historical data on a compact disk, send a written request to Minerals
Management Service, Reporting Services, Attention: Kathy Ciferri, P.O.
Box 5760, Mail Stop 357B1, Denver, CO 80217-5760.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Kathy Ciferri, Minerals Management
Service, P.O. Box 5760, MS-357B1, Denver, CO 80217-5760; telephone
number (303) 231-3060; fax number (303) 231-3608; e-mail
kathleen.ciferri@mms.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Before the new financial management system
was implemented November 1, 2001, royalty data reported to MMS on
Federal and Indian mineral leases was entered into the Auditing and
Financial System (AFS). Production data reported to MMS on Federal and
Indian mineral leases was entered into the Production Accounting and
Auditing System (PAAS).
As part of the implementation of the new financial management
system, MMS converted all royalty data received between January 1,
1983, and October 16, 2001, to the new Report of Sales and Royalty
Remittance (Form MMS-2014, revised October 1, 2001) format. MMS
converted all production data reported on the Monthly Report of
Operations (Form MMS-3160), the Oil and Gas Operations Report (OGOR),
and the Production Allocation Schedule Report (PASR) received between
January 1, 1983, and October 16, 2001, to the new OGOR and PASR (Forms
MMS-4054 and MMS-4058, revised October 1, 2001) formats. This
historical royalty and production data is stored in the new financial
management system in the revised formats.
This historical data is available to the original reporters of the
data. MMS is fully aware of the necessity to protect proprietary data;
consequently, data will not be released to anyone, other than the
original reporter, unless the requester demonstrates a legal right to
that data. MMS will provide historical data by reporter code to
companies who merge when complete ownership can be legally
demonstrated. Companies that acquire only a portion of another
company's leases will not receive
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historical data except through specific Freedom of Information Act
requests.
To Obtain Historical Data Via the Internet
To obtain historical data via the Internet, refer to MMS's ``Dear
Reporter'' letter dated October 22, 2001, for detailed instructions on
how to complete the required SARF. The SARF was an attachment to the
October 22, 2001 letter, and is also available on MMS's Internet site
at www.mrm.mms.gov. Send the SARF to the address listed in the
ADDRESSES section above. Once the SARF is processed, MMS will advise
reporters of the secure Internet site for access to their data.
Reporters will have the capability to download their historical royalty
and production data from the Internet with the exception of PASR data.
The length of time it will take to download the data directly
correlates with how much data there is to download and the connection
speed to the Internet.
To Obtain Historical Data Via Compact Disk (CD)
To obtain historical data via CD, send a written request to the
address listed in the ADDRESSES section above. The MMS will provide
this CD one time only at no charge to the requestor. The data will be
created in ASCII format, fixed-width character size output files. These
files can then be easily imported to Microsoft Access or Excel, or
downloaded to a mainframe computer. However, as with downloading data
from the Internet, the ease of downloading to Microsoft Access or Excel
will vary depending on the volume of data to be downloaded. The data
must be requested and will be provided by specified reporter code
(payor code for royalty data and operator code for production data).
Dated: March 1, 2002.
Milton K. Dial,
Acting Associate Director for Minerals Revenue Management.
[FR Doc. 02-9297 Filed 4-16-02; 8:45 am]
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