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Overview of Percent of Federal Minerals and Acreage Available for Oil and Gas Development PDF

Overview of Percent of Federal Minerals and Acreage Available for Oil and Gas Development Selected Resource Management Plans for the Rocky Mountain West  

Sitting Pretty: PDF

Sitting Pretty: The numbers show that the oil and gas industry is flourishing on our federal lands, while sitting on thousands of unused drilling permits and tens of millions of acres of idle federal leases.

Natural Gas Supply Curves for United States PDF

Mean Resource Case; 2007 Cost Index – Natural Gas Volume Economic at Given Wellhead Price – Trillion Cubic Feet (TCF)   Source: Adapted from MIT (2011) Table 2C.7

On the Shelf: The Oil & Gas Industry’s Idle Federal Drilling Permits PDF

Analysis of idle Bureau of Land Management Applications for Permit to Drill (APDs) as of May 31, 2011. Data provided by the BLM.

Flowchart Guide to the BLM Oil and Gas Leasing Process PDF

IM 2010-117 (issued May 17, 2010) establishes, among other oil and gas reforms, a new oil and gas leasing process for public lands. This flowchart describes the stages of the new process.

The Facts: New Data Shows Over 29,000,000 Acres of Idle Federal Oil and Gas Leases PDF

Data Also Shows Thousands of Idle but Approved Federal Drilling Permits Although the oil and gas industry and their allies have criticized Obama Administration policies for allegedly restricting the industry’s access to federal lands for drilling, new information released by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in January, 2011 indicates that the oil and gas industry controls 41,186,158 acres of federal onshore lands, but has drilling operations on just 12,205,416 acres of these leases.

The Facts: Plenty of Room for BLM's New Wild Lands Policy PDF

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar recently issued Secretarial Order #3310, which directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to identify and consider protecting lands harboring wilderness characteristics within the hundreds of millions of acres of public lands that it manages by designating “Wild Lands.” Although the BLM manages the most lands (245 million acres) of all the federal land management agencies, it has the smallest portfolio of designated wilderness (8.6 million acres).

A GIS Analysis of Technically Recoverable Natural Gas and Oil from Challenged Lease Parcels in Utah PDF

On December 19, 2008, BLM issued leases covering close to 150,000 acres in Utah. Plaintiffs have challenged 77 of those leases, totaling around 103,000 acres. The potential natural gas and oil under these contested leases in Utah amounts to a miniscule amount of energy. At best (not taking into account prices or other obstacles to development), these leases could provide 0.02% of annual oil and just 0.5% of annual natural gas consumption.

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