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For Immediate Release: Friday, July 7, 2017 Contact: Nicolette Nye, (202) 465-8463, nnye@nullnoia.org NOIA Applauds Lower Shallow Water Royalty Rate for Upcoming Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale  Washington, D.C. – National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) President Randall Luthi issued the following statement applauding BOEM’s decision to lower the shallow water […]

Reuters | Jessica Resnick-Ault | June 27, 2017 About 300 BP workers commute 150 miles here by helicopter, from the Louisiana coast to a deep-sea drilling platform that can produce more oil in a day than a West Texas rig can pump in a year. […]

The Virginian-Pilot | Dave Mayfield | June 26, 2017 A rig won’t drill off the Virginia coast without a new round of seismic surveys for potential oil and gas deposits. That’s one of the few things about which there’s wide agreement among people who cry […]

The Washington Times | Rick Perry and Ryan Zinke and Scott Pruitt | June 26, 2017 This week, the Trump administration is hosting “Energy Week” to discuss with state, tribal, business and labor leaders how we can pave the path forward toward U.S. energy dominance. […]

Corpus Christi Caller Times | Ret. Vice Admiral Paul Gaffney II | June 27, 2017 In building a policy agenda for our nation’s future, the Trump Administration has made “America First” its guiding principle. With that in mind, our federal government must continue to invest […]

Reuters | Valerie Volcovici | June 19, 2017  Boosting drilling and mining on America's protected federal lands can help the United States become not just independent, but "dominant" as a global energy force, according to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, whose agency manages about one-fifth of U.S. territory. […]

New Bern Sun Journal | Don Oltz | June 14, 2017 This is a response to the May 13 article “Feds push new seismic testing.” For several years I chaired the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Committee for the Dept. of Interior Minerals (DOI) Management Service […]

The Hill | Roger Keyte | June 15, 2017 It has been more than 30 years since the last seismic surveys were taken of the outer continental shelf of the Atlantic seaboard. The estimates we currently have for how much oil and natural gas may […]

The Daily Caller | Michael Bastasch | June 7, 2017 President Donald Trump won’t have to do much to make the U.S. “energy dominant” — America has been number one in oil and natural gas production for five years in a row, according to federal […]

CNBC | Tom DiChristopher | June 6, 2017 The U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday signaled it is now more confident that U.S. oil production will rise to 10 million barrels a day next year, the highest average annual level on the books. The department's Energy […]