bout the Minerals Management Service
The Minerals Management Service
(MMS), a bureau in the U.S. Department of the
Interior, is the federal agency that manages the nation's natural gas, oil
and other mineral resources on the outer
continental shelf (OCS). The agency also collects, accounts for and disburses
more than $5 billion per year in revenues from federal offshore mineral leases and from
onshore mineral leases on federal and Indian lands. The program is national in scope and
headquartered in Washington, D.C. It includes two major programs,
Offshore Energy and Minerals Management (OEMM) and
Minerals Revenue Management.
The Offshore
program, which manages the mineral resources on the OCS, comprises three regions:
Alaska,
Gulf of Mexico, and the
Pacific. The Minerals
Revenue program is headquartered in Washington, D.C., but operationally based in Denver,
Colorado.