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Leasing
The OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program is a pivotal element of Offshore
Energy and Minerals Management. Many different disciplines
contribute to and support the overall leasing program--from the initial
assessment of resources to environmental considerations to the final
determination of what is actually offered for lease.
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Leasing Offshore Lands
– the leasing process, 5-year program, schedules, and mapping.
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Fair Market Value –
economic analyses, fair market value procedures, economic databases &
modeling, post-sale activities and rejected bid appeals.
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Forms
– for all phases of leasing, development and production.
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Outer Continental Shelf
(OCS)
– definition.
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Resource Evaluation –
geological and geophysical
evaluations; engineering assessments of mineral resource potential.
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Royalty Relief –
design of policies, reviews requests for royalty rate reductions,
generates economic assumptions.
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Sand and Gravel – collects and provides geologic and
environmental information, developed through partnerships with coastal
States, to identify and make available sand deposits in Federal waters
suitable for beach nourishment and wetlands protection projects.
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