Minerals
Management Service Donates 200-year old Shipwreck Artifacts to State of
Louisiana
Protecting and preserving the nation’s historic
treasures
NEW ORLEANS – The Department Interior’s Minerals
Management Service (MMS) donated a large collection of historic artifacts to the
Louisiana Department of Culture Recreation and Tourism’s Division of Archaeology
today at the Louisiana State Museum, the Cabildo.
(03/09/2009)
MMS Donates
Artifacts from Historic Shipwreck to State of Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS – The Minerals Management Service
(MMS) Gulf of Mexico Regional Director Lars Herbst and Louisiana’s Lt. Governor
Mitch Landrieu will announce the donation of more than 500 historically
significant artifacts to the Louisiana State Museum and the Louisiana State
Division of Archaeology at a news conference to be held at the Cabildo on March
9th.
(03/03/2009)
MMS Approves
$61.8 Million plan for Mississippi Coastal Restoration
Funding to help restore and protect states
shoreline environments
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Interior Department’s
Minerals Management Service announced today the approval of Mississippi’s
Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP) Plan, calling it a major step forward
in providing $61.8 million to the state of Mississippi in the coming year,
representing the first two years of funding under CIAP.
(02/18/2009)
MMS Shares
Technical Expertise with Indian Officials
Engineers get hands-on training in offshore
oil and gas operations
WASHINGTON - The Interior Department’s Minerals
Management Service (MMS) announced today the successful completion of a two week
offshore oil and gas technical exchange for visiting engineers from India’s
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Oil Industry Safety Directorate (OISD).
(02/17/2009)
MMS Adds Full
Text Search to Environmental Studies Database
Search capability offers improved access to
research data
NEW ORLEANS – The Department of the Interior’s
Minerals Management Service (MMS) has added full text search capabilities to its
online publications database, the Environmental Studies Program Information
System (ESPIS).
(02/11/2009)
Hurricane Gustav/Hurricane Ike Activity Statistics Final Update – February 11,
2009
Minerals Management Service wraps-up hurricane
production shut-in reports.
NEW ORLEANS —
Offshore oil and gas operators in the Gulf of Mexico continue to restore shut-in
oil and natural gas production resulting from Hurricane Gustav and Hurricane
Ike. This report will be the final one issued concerning shut-in production from
these two storms.
(02/11/2009)
MMS Awards
$10.6 Million to Louisiana for Coastal Restoration
Louisiana receives grant for Grand Lake Shoreline
Protection
NEW ORLEANS – The Minerals Management Service
(MMS) has awarded a $10.6 million grant to the State of Louisiana through the
Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP) for the Grand Lake Shoreline Protection
project.
(02/02/2009)
MMS Appoints New Senior Staff Geophysicist
Brinkman will coordinate seismic activity compliance for all MMS regions
NEW ORLEANS – Minerals Management Service (MMS) Gulf of Mexico Regional Director Lars Herbst has announced the appointment of Ron Brinkman as the Senior Staff Geophysicist in the Resource Evaluation Office.
(02/02/2009)
Western Gulf
of Mexico Sale 207 Nets $483,959,404 in High Bids
Summary of Results
NEW ORLEANS — The Minerals Management Service (MMS) has
accepted high bids valued at $483,959,404 and awarded 313 leases to the
successful high bidders who participated in Western Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas
Lease Sale 207.
(01/22/2009)
MMS Issues
Final Notice of Central Gulf Lease Sale 208
New area to be offered will provide revenue to
Gulf producing states.
NEW ORLEANS – The Department of the Interior’s
Minerals Management Service (MMS) today issued the final notice for a Federal
oil and gas lease sale in the Central Gulf of Mexico (CGOM).
(01/15/2009)
MMS
Approves Texas Coastal Impact Assistance Program Plan
Federal grants will help Texas restore and
protect its shoreline environments
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Minerals Management Service
Director Randall Luthi today signed the Texas Coastal Impact Assistance Program
(CIAP) Plan, making available more than $48 million through Federal grants to
the State and 18 counties to restore and protect their shoreline environments.
(01/12/2009)
MMS Director Randall Luthi to Announce Significant
Milestone in the Coastal Impact
Assistance Program Involving the State of Texas
NEW ORLEANS — The Minerals Management Service
(MMS) Director Randall Luthi will announce a significant milestone in the
Coastal Impact Assistance Program involving the State of Texas at a news
conference on Monday, January 12, 2009 at the Ortiz Conference Center, The Port
of Corpus Christi, 402 Harbor Drive, Corpus Christi ,Tx.
(01/08/2009)
MMS Extends the Comment Period for Virginia Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Sale 220 Call for Information and Notice of Intent
WASHINGTON – Minerals Management Service (MMS) is extending the public comment period for the Call for Information and Interest/Nominations and Notice of Intent (Call/NOI) to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for initial information gathering for a proposed OCS Lease Sale 220 offshore Virginia.
(12/19/2008)
New MMS New
Orleans District Manager is Selected
New District Manager for Field Operations brings
25 years experience
NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans District Drilling
Engineer David Trocquet has been selected as the new District Manager for the
MMS New Orleans District Office, Field Operations.
(12/10/2008)
MMS
Completes Assessment of Destroyed and Damaged Facilities from Hurricanes Gustav
and Ike
Number of destroyed platforms exceeds number from
Hurricane Katrina
NEW ORLEANS – Minerals Management Service (MMS) Gulf of Mexico
Regional Office staff have completed the assessment of destroyed and damaged
facilities from Hurricanes Gustav and Ike. The assessment was conducted in
coordination with the oil and gas operators who report the status of their
production platforms to MMS following a storm.
(11/26/2008)
MMS Underway with $3.7 Million Deepwater Coral Study
NEW ORLEANS - The Minerals Management Service (MMS) has begun a $3.7 million, four-year study of deepwater corals in the Gulf of Mexico. The study contract, which focuses on deepwater coral communities that have formed both naturally and on oil and gas platforms and shipwrecks, was awarded to TDI International Inc.
(11/24/2008)
Interior’s Minerals
Management Service Disburses Record $23.4 Billion in FY 2008
State share from energy production hits new high of $2.59
billion
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne
today announced that Interior’s Minerals Management Service had distributed a
record $23.4 billion to state, American Indian and federal accounts from onshore
and offshore energy production during Fiscal Year 2008.
(11/20/2008)
Minerals
Management Service Approves $21 Million Grant for Louisiana Barrier Island
Restoration
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources to
receive Federal grant for East Grand Terre Island Restoration Project
NEW ORLEANS – The Minerals Management Service
(MMS) has awarded a $21 million grant to the Louisiana Department of Natural
Resources through the Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP) to create beach,
dune, and marsh habitats on the East Grand Terre Island using dredged material.
(11/19/2008)
MMS Initiates
Oil and Gas Leasing Process for Offshore Virginia
Initial information-gathering steps begin for
proposed Sale 220
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Minerals Management Service (MMS) has taken the first
step in the multi-year leasing process to hold a sale for acreage offshore
Virginia.
(11/12/2008)
MMS Director Announces First of Multi-Step Process
for Oil and Gas Leasing Offshore Virginia
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, November 12, 2008, Minerals Management
Service (MMS) Director Randall Luthi will announce a significant first step in the multistep
leasing process for offshore Virginia. A step that will involve full public
involvement and begin the work for an environmental analysis.
(11/07/2008)
MMS Report
Details Excavation of Historic Shipwreck
Artifacts yield clues to colonial commerce in the
Gulf of Mexico.
NEW ORLEANS — The archaeological excavation of a
historic shipwreck, the deepest scientific recovery of artifacts ever attempted
in the Gulf of Mexico, is the subject of a report published by the U.S.
Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service (MMS), the federal
agency that regulates the development of the nation’s offshore energy resources.
(10/29/2008)