Offshore Energy and Minerals Management (OEMM): Resources
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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, MMS 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.

Last Updated: 05/28/2009, 02:57 PM Central Time