Working for America’s energy future and a quality environment

Key Responsibilities

Manages energy resources on the outer continental shelf
Ensures fair market value for America’s offshore energy resources
Steward of the offshore environment
Maintains the highest standards of operational safety
Ensures that American Indians receive accurate and fast revenue returns for minerals produced on their lands

Fast Facts

Created in 1982
A bureau of the Department of the Interior, headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Primary locations in Denver, Colo.; New Orleans, La.; Camarillo, Calif.; Anchorage, Alaska
1,800 employees nationwide

The outer continental shelf consists of lands that begin 3 to 12 miles seaward of U.S. coast. It is estimated to contain more than 50 percent of the nation’s remaining oil and gas resources.
About 24 percent of the natural gas and nearly 27 percent of the oil produced in the United States come from the outer continental shelf. MMS manages mineral leasing and development on nearly 2 billion acres of submerged lands on the outer continental shelf, on which there are about 7,600 active leases on 40 million acres.
MMS collects, accounts for, and disburses mineral revenues from federal and Indian leases - an average of $6 billion annually.
Since MMS was created in 1982, distributed revenues have amounted to more than $127 billion, including:

$79.5 billion to the U.S. Treasury

$18.1 billion to the Land and Water Conservation Fund

$2.9 billion to the Historic Preservation Fund

$8.6 billion to water projects in the Western United States

$14.2 billion to the States

$3.6 billion to Indians

Minerals Management Service Public Affairs Mail Stop 4230 1849 C Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20240 (202) 208-3985	Minerals Management Service Minerals Revenue Management Public Affairs P.O. Box 25165 Denver, Colo. 80225 (303) 231-3162
Minerals Management Service Gulf of Mexico OCS Region Public Affairs 1201 Elmwood Park Blvd. New Orleans, La. 70123-2394 (504) 736-2595	Minerals Management Service Pacific OCS Region Public Affairs 770 Paseo Camarillo Camarillo, Calif. 93010 1-800-6PAC-OCS
Alaska OCS Region Minerals Management Service Public Affairs 949 East 36^th Avenue, Room 308 Anchorage, Alaska 99508-4363 1-800-764-2627
MMS: Securing Ocean Energy & Economic Value for America U.S. Department of the Interior