President Requests $364.8 million for MMS FY 2011 Budget
Budget highlights include funding for renewable energy programs, royalty management
improvements
WASHINGTON, D.C. – With a budget designed to increase America’s energy security
by expanding the nation’s energy portfolio and ensuring a fair return for these public
resources, the President has proposed $364.8 million in funding for the Minerals
Management Service (MMS) in fiscal year 2011.
(02/01/2010)
MMS Opens
Public Comment Period on Cape Wind Energy Project
Comments due by February 12, 2010
WASHINGTON — As part of Secretary of the Interior
Ken Salazar’s commitment to issue a decision on the application for the Cape
Wind Energy Project, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) is accepting public
comments on the historic preservation aspects of the project.
(01/22/2010)
Mary
Katherine Ishee Named New MMS Deputy Director
WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior’s
Minerals Management Service (MMS) announced today the appointment of Mary
Katherine Ishee as deputy director.
(01/20/2010)
MMS Awards
$67 million for CIAP Grants in 2009
Funding provided to eligible states,
political subdivisions
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Minerals Management
Service (MMS) announced today that it awarded $67 million in grants to Alabama,
Alaska, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas and their political subdivisions in
2009 through the Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP).
(01/19/2010)
MMS Approves
$1.2 Million Grant for Fringe Marsh Repair
Project to assist in the restoration of
Plaquemines Parish Levee wetlands area
NEW ORLEANS – The Minerals Management Service
(MMS) has approved a grant for $1,237,608 to the Plaquemines Parish Government
in Louisiana through the Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP).
(01/07/2010)
MMS Study
Probes Mystery of Loop Current in Eastern Gulf of Mexico
“Observation of the Deepwater Manifestation
of the Loop Current and Loop Current Rings in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico
(OCS Study MMS 2009-050)”
NEW ORLEANS – A study released by the Minerals
Management Service today examines the circulation in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico
(GOM) and sheds new light on the behavior of the Loop Current (LC) and Loop
Current Eddies (LCEs), the relation between the upper- and lower-layer currents,
and the variability of water mass characteristics in deepwater.
(01/06/2010)
MMS notifying
offshore lease owners of inspection fees
New law directs MMS to collect $10 million
for inspections
DENVER – The Department of the Interior’s
Minerals Management Service (MMS) is notifying offshore lease owners and
operators that new fees will be collected to recover the costs of offshore
inspections conducted during Fiscal Year 2010, MMS Director Liz Birnbaum
announced today.
(12/22/2009)
MMS Names
Cooke to Regional Supervisor Position
Newly appointed Program Office head brings
over 31 years of Federal energy experience
NEW ORLEANS – Minerals Management Service (MMS)
Gulf of Mexico Regional Director Lars Herbst has selected David W. Cooke, Ph.D.
as the new Regional Supervisor for Resource Evaluation in the Gulf Region
Office.
(12/17/2009)
Western Gulf
of Mexico Sale 210 Nets $111 Million in High Bids
MMS completes fair market value review of
Western Gulf oil and gas bids.
NEW ORLEANS — The Minerals Management Service
(MMS) has accepted high bids valued at $111,385,124 and awarded 155 leases to
the successful high bidders who participated in Western Gulf of Mexico Oil and
Gas Lease Sale 210 held August 19, 2009.
(12/10/2009)
Salazar
Announces MMS Plan to Establish Atlantic Renewable Energy Office
COPENHAGEN Today, as he toured the
Middelgrunden wind farm near Copenhagen Denmark, Secretary of the Interior
Ken Salazar announced that the Minerals Management Service (MMS) will
establish a new regional office in 2010 to support renewable energy
development on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) off the Atlantic seaboard.
(12/09/2009)
Salazar:
Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale to Offer 36 Million Acres for Oil and Gas
Development
March 17 Sale Could Produce up to 1.3 Billion
Barrels of Oil
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken
Salazar today announced the Department will hold an oil and natural gas lease
sale for the Central Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf that will offer
nearly 36 million acres and could produce up to 1.3 billion barrels of oil and
5.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. (11/16/2009)
MMS Study Positively Identifies Giant Squid Presence
in Gulf of Mexico
Field Work for MMS Sperm Whale Prey Study Nets Giant Squid
NEW ORLEANS- During a recent research cruise, a rare giant squid was captured in the
Gulf of Mexico.
(09/21/2009)
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