Oil and Gas Statistics
The BLM compiles a large amount of statistical information relating to oil and gas leasing on Federal lands. Below are links to tables and spreadsheets with data that include the numbers of BLM-administered oil and gas leases, applications for permit to drill, and oil and gas wells. Because the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act if 1987 set the competitive lease requirement for public lands, 1988 is the first year for which some of this data is available. For the purposes of the information on this page, these lands are referred to as “Federal lands.”
The definitions on this page apply to the BLM onshore leasing program only.
The Department of the Interior's Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) maintains statistical data for Federal onshore sales volumes and reported royalty revenues.
The BLM state and regional offices hold quarterly oil and gas lease sales if they have parcels available. The revenue reported includes the first year's rent of $1.50 per acre, a bonus bid of not less than $2 an acre, and an administrative fee. Revenues are split between the state where the drilling occurs and the U.S. Treasury. Information on last fiscal year’s sales is also available.
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Leases issued over the course of a fiscal year may or may not be leases sold during that same year. For example, a lease might have been sold but not issued pending protest resolution. Following successful resolution, that lease would have been issued, but this process may not have concluded in the same fiscal year. This figure includes parcels sold at a competitive lease sale, as well as leases issued non-competitively.
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Download the table here. Note that a single lease may have multiple APDs approved and each well pad may have one or more APDs.
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Download the table here. Separate service completions are for the benefit of oil and gas operations, such as water disposal, salt water disposal, water injection, gas injection, water source, steam injection, or monitoring.