The MMS has two confirmed reports of rigs adrift. The MMS, industry, and the Coast Guard are working together to monitor their paths. MMS says that that there is minimal infrastructure in the areas ...

The US Minerals Management Service has issued revised guidelines to help operators submit oil and gas exploration and development plans for Gulf of Mexico leases. Federal law requires a company to ...

The Minerals Management Service will auction off leases to drilling tracts in the Western Gulf of Mexico this morning. Liz Birnbaum, MMS director, will host the event, scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. at ...

Production incentives could help push Gulf of Mexico oil production to 2.5 million b/d by 2011—with almost 80% coming from deepwater wells—from the current 1.5 million b/d, US Department of the ...

A sixty-page memorandum addressed to Renee Orr, the chief of the leasing division of the Minerals Management Service (MMS), was sent in September 2009 by an environmental investigator, warning of ...

New incentives to encourage energy companies to explore and develop difficult-to-reach areas of the Gulf of Mexico will help boost peak oil production in the gulf by 43 percent and natural gas ...

HOUSTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. Minerals Management Service will offer credits to lessees who give up eligible leases in the Gulf of Mexico. In proposed amendment to regulations, MMS will also ...