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Resources
The resources of the Outer Continental Shelf include oil, gas, sulphur,
sand and gravel. The estimation of the undiscovered potential
resources, oil and gas production, reserve estimates of established
fields, and policy and management issues concerning sand and gravel are
available as links from this page.
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Deep
Shelf Gas - beginning in 2001, the Bureau adopted incentives that
would encourage drilling for deeper deposits of natural gas in shallow
waters.
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Deepwater
- facts on deepwater activities.
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Gas Hydrates
- recent results of drilling for hydrates, environmental studies on
hydrates, and progress towards a permanent seafloor observatory for
hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Oil & Gas
Production - total Federal OCS production since 1995.
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Resource Assessment
- information about the National Resource Assessment of the Federal OCS.
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Sand & Gravel
- marine mineral resources on the OCS.
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