MMS Press Release Catalog
2001

bullet 12/13/01 MMS CONTRACTOR EARNS ANOTHER ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD
bullet 12/12/01 Federal Agencies Sign Memorandum of Agreement the Restoration of Assateague Island
bullet 12/5/01 Sale 181 Attracts $340 Million in High Bids
bullet 11/20/01 Minerals Management Service Acting Director Tom Kitsos Announces Resignation
bullet 11/20/01 MMS Issues Proposed Notice of Central Gulf Lease Sale 182
bullet 11/13/01 White House Task Force On Energy Project Streamlining Holds Open Houses
bullet 11/13/01 Interior Supports Royalty In Kind to Strengthen Long-TermEnergy Security and Fill Strategic Petroleum Reserve
bullet 11/01/01 First Alaska Offshore Energy Flows Today
bullet 10/26/01 Secretary Norton Announces Eastern Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 181, Scheduled for Dec. 5
bullet 10/26/01 MMS Issues Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program 2002-2007 and Draft Environmental Impact Statement
bullet 10/03/2001MMS Contracts with Texas A&M University to Investigate Deepwater Shipwreck Discovered by ExxonMobil
bullet 10/02/01MMS Schedules Royalty Policy Committee Meeting
bullet 09/21/01 MMS Issues 8th ITM Proceedings
bullet 09/21/01MMS Issues Sport Fisheries Economic Assessment for Lower and Central Cook Inlet
bullet 09/21/01 Sockeye Salmon Diet Revealed in New MMS Study
bullet 09/20/01 MMS Contractor Earns Environmental Achievement Award
bullet 09/14/01 MMS Issues Multisale Process for Gulf of Mexico Sales
bullet 09/13/01 MMS Postpones Royalty Policy Committee Meeting
bullet 09/09/01 MMS Announces Multiple Sale Process for Alaska's Beaufort Sea
bullet 09/05/01 The U.S. Minerals Management Service to Visit University Career Fairs
bullet 08/28/01 MMS Publishes Proposed Rule to Improve Workers’ Safety
bullet 8/22/01 Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 180 Attracts $165.5 Million in High Bids
bullet 08/22/01Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 180 Attracts $165.5 Million in High Bids
bullet 08/21/2001Western GOM Lease Sale 180 Receives 386 Bids on 320 Tracts; Central GOM Lease Sale 178, Part 2 Receives No Bids
bullet 08/17/2001MMS & LSU Sponsor Over $22 Million in Coastal Studies, 1992-1998
bullet 08/16/01 American Indian Company Awarded $100 Million Contract
bullet 08/15/01 News Release - Cook Inlet Sediment Study Issued
bullet 08/10/01 States Receive Record $656 Million From Federal Mineral Revenues
bullet 08/10/01 STATES RECEIVE RECORD $656 MILLION FROM FEDERAL MINERAL REVENUES
bullet 08/07/2001MMS to Prepare Environmental Assessment for Proposed Eastern Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 181
bullet 08/06/2001MMS Study Finds that Oil and Gas Industry Development Along the Gulf Coast Is Only Part of the Picture
bullet 08/06/01 Dr. Richard Prentki Receives Interior Department's Superior Service Award
bullet 07/20/01 MMS Issues Draft Proposed  Outer  Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program 2002-2007
(Factsheet)
bullet 07/12/01 MMS Issues Proposed Notice of Sale for Eastern Gulf of Mexico Sale 181
bullet 07/23/2001MMS Issues Final Notice of Western Gulf Lease Sale 180
bullet 07/23/2001MMS Issues Final Notice of Western Gulf Lease Sale 180 - Fact Sheet
bullet 07/23/2001MMS Issues Final Notice of Sale 178, Part 2
bullet 07/23/01 MMS Issues Draft Proposed 5-Year OCS Leasing Program for 2002-2007
bullet 07/15/01 MMS Publishes Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Proposed Delineation Drilling Activity on Undeveloped Leases Offshore Santa Barbara County, California.  Public Hearings Scheduled. 
bullet 07/12/2001 MMS Issues Proposed Notice of Sale for Eastern Gulf of Mexico Sale 181
bullet 07/03/01 MMS Postpones Public Hearings on Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Proposed Delineation Drilling Activity on Undeveloped Leases Offshore Santa Barbara County, California..  MMS Fully Complies with Recent Ruling Over Pacific OCS Lease Suspensions.
bullet 07/02/2001 Secretary Norton Announces Area of Proposed 181 Lease Sale on Outer Continental Shelf
bullet 07/02/2001Minerals Management Service Has Prepared a Final Environmental Impact Statement on Proposed Eastern Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale 181
bullet 06/22/2001 Central Gulf of Mexico Sale 178, Part 1 Nets $499.6 Million in High Bids
bullet 06/15/01 MMS Ensures Nation's Historic Shipwrecks are Protected as Archaeologists Share in U-Boat Discovery
bullet 06/07/01MS Streamlines Process, Announces Prequalification Guidelines For    Upcoming Royalty In Kind Crude Oil Sales
bullet 05/23/01 Two Records Are Set for Deepwater Gulf of Mexico
bullet 05/23/2001 MMS Updates Oil & Gas Production Rate Projections to 2005
bullet 05/09/01 $65 Goes to Six Coastal States in Final 8(g) Settlement
bullet 05/01/01 MMS Nears Final Stages of Reengineering Financial System
bullet 04/30/01 $65 Million Goes to Six Coastal States in Final 8(G) Settlement Payment
bullet 04/19/2001 Number of Rigs Drilling In Deepwater Gulf Reaches Record High of 42
bullet 04/19/01 Gulf of Mexico Oil Production Rose Again in 2000; Gas Production Declining
bullet 04/16/01 Minerals Management Service Engages Booz·Allen to Conduct Foundational Study on E-government   Strategy Aimed at Promoting Efficiency and Saving Money for Government, Industry and Taxpayers
bullet 04/16/01 NEED Conference for Teachers to be Held in Girdwood
bullet 04/05/01 2001 Campbell School Science Fair Winners
bullet 04/09/01 President Requests $258.2 Million for FY 2002 MMS Budget
bullet 04/06/01 Proposed Notice of Western Gulf Lease Sale 180 Includes Initiatives to Increase Domestic Energy Production
bullet 04/06/01 MMS Issues Proposed Notice of Sale 178, Part 2
bullet 04/04/01 Secretary of the Interior Announces Oil and Gas Industry Awards
bullet 03/30/01 Secretary of the Interior to Present Stewardship Award to Top Mineral Resource Companies
bullet 03/30/01 Media Advisory: Secretary Norton to Address the Minerals Management Services Third Annual Industry Awards Ceremony, April 4
bullet 03/28/01 Central Gulf of Mexico Sale 178, Part I Attracts $505.4 Million in High Bids
bullet 03/27/2001 Central GOM Lease Sale 178, Part 1 Receives 780 Bids on 547 Tracts
bullet 03/22/2001 Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 178, Part 1
bullet 03/22/01 MMS Recognizes Contractor For Safe Drilling Operations Offshore Santa Barbara County, California
bullet 03/15/2001 Deepwater Program: Literature Review, Environmental Risk of Chemicals Used in Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Oil and Gas Operations MMS Study 2001-011 and 012
bullet 03/14/01 MMS Analyzes Results of Wyoming Oil Royalty-in-Kind Pilot Program
bullet 03/09/01 Norton Announces Nomination of J. Steven Griles to Serve as Deputy Secretary of the Interior
bullet 03/05/01 MMS Royalty Policy Committee Meeting Set For New Orleans, March 27
bullet 02/27/01 Liberty DEIS Hearings on North Slope
bullet 02/23/2001 MMS Issues Final Notice of Sale for Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 178
bullet 02/23/01 MMS Announces Lease Terms and Conditions for Central Gulf Lease Sale 178
bullet 02/20/01 MMS Announces 2000 Safe Finalists
bullet 02/16/2001 MMS Releases Scientific Report on Barium- and Radium-Rich Fluids Seeping onto the Gulf of Mexico Seafloor
bullet 02/09/2001 MMS Announces the Availability of the Final EIS on Floating Production, Storage, and Offloading Systems, and Completion of the Comparative Risk Analysis
bullet 2/05/01 Liberty DEIS Hearings In Anchorage
bullet 02/06/01 MMS and Wyoming Conduct Sixth Royalty-In-Kind Crude Oil Sale
bullet 02/01/01 MMS Announces Winners of Corporate Leadership Award
bullet 02/2001 Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement on the Proposed Use  of Floating Production, Storage, and Offloading Systems on the Gulf of Mexico  Outer Continental Shelf, Western and Central Planning Areas
bullet 01/25/01 35 States Receive Record $800 Million
bullet 01/23/01 Shell Oil to Pay United States $110 Million for Underpayment of Oil Royalties
bullet 01/23/01 Alaska Annual Minerals Revenues
bullet 01/23/01 California Nets $24.8 Million as State's Share of Federal Mineral Revenues in 2000
bullet 01/18/01Secretary Babbitt Defers Alaska’s Beaufort Sea Lease Sale 176
bullet 01/17/2001 MMS Updates Estimates for Oil and Gas Resources on the OCS
bullet 01/11/2001 MMS Issues Final Revisions to Guidelines on Preparing Offshore Exploration and Development Plans
bullet 01/11/01 MMS Holds Public Scoping Meeting on Proposed Exploratory Activity on  Undeveloped Leases Offshore Santa Barbara County, California