Outer Continental Shelf: Debate Over Oil and Gas Leasing and Revenue Sharing

Humphries, Marc

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Oil and gas leases;    Oil fields;    Natural gas;   

RP-ID  :  RL33493
RP-ID  :  RL33493_2008Sep17

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report provides the background and recent development in Oil and gas leasing in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).This has been an important issue in the debate over energy security and domestic energy resources. The Department of the Interior (DOI) released a comprehensive inventory of OCS resources in February 2006 that estimated reserves of 8.5 billion barrels of oil and 29.3 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas.