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Aired May 4, 2010 – 17:00 ET
THE SITUATION ROOM (CNN)
(The show with Wolf Blitzer)
TODD: New concerns about the government agency that oversees the oil business. The minerals management service understated the amount of previous oil spills in the gulf and the potential impact from a spill. That’s according to a warning sent late last year from another government agency, NOAA.
It says when the Obama team asked for a risk assessment, MMS used outdated information on the frequency of oil spills. And failed to include more recent information from many sources, including a big increase in spills from hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The head of one watchdog group says this —
DANIELLE BRIAN, PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT: What you’re seeing here is one of the agencies really doing their job and raising concerns and say, you know, as we’re looking at this offshore drilling, shouldn’t you be a little more concerned about the implications here if something went wrong and MMS essentially ignoring them.
( . . . )
BRIAN: We’ve really had problems with MMS for over a decade recognizing this is an agency that really thinks of the oil and gas industry as their partner or client rather than as an industry they should be regulating.
TODD: Despite several calls and e-mails from us, MMS did not respond to that. Records also show that before this accident, BP was confident it could handle this kind of spill.
In one document, the company said it has the capability to respond to a worst-case discharge, which it estimated then at 300,000 gallons a day. This well is leaking less than that amount. BP is struggling to contain it has been criticized by the federal government. I asked a BP spokeswoman if they’d overestimated their ability to respond.
MARTI POWERS, BP SPOKESWOMAN: What you’re seeing from the response capability, this is huge. This is not just BP. There are federal agencies, state agencies that are here with us. I think it speaks that — well that we are able to — to manage to get resources so quickly in these areas and really start a very proactive response effort.
(etc.)
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1005/04/sitroom.01.html
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Minerals Management Service
The Minerals Management Service (MMS), a bureau within the Department of Interior, regulates and manages the development of energy and mineral resources in the Federal waters off the nation’s shores. MMS also collects, audits and distributes all energy and mineral revenues from these federal waters as well as from energy and mineral resources on both Federal and Indian lands.
http://www.doi.gov/bureaus/mms.cfm
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My Note – And, from tonight’s AC360 – there was evidence that they found indicating that the MMS has been acting as an agency of the oil and mining industries rather than acting as agents representing the interests of the American people. (Among other things . . . )
There was also the story with “Brownie” FEMA Katrina guy from clips made last night and Bill Maher answering some of it. Two things I noticed in particular – one was Brownie saying that there is an intention to move away from a carbon based energy / fuels system to something else – among the other intentions he claimed are in existence.
And, the fact that Mr. Bill pointed out – from 1984 fuel efficiency of American cars was 20 miles per gallon and by 2004, it was 20.7 miles per gallon in fuel efficiency. Now, that is the truth. How did the automakers in America manage to do that so poorly?
What caught me by surprise in Mr. FEMA Brown’s statement is that in the way he said it – there was something very evidently undesirable about leaving a carbon based fuels system and going to something else. So, why is that a problem? And, where did he get the idea that it isn’t a good thing? Whose estimation of it is that?
I did all kinds of fun and wonderful things today like washing clothes and walking to the store which wasn’t as hard as walking back from the store. It is hot here during the day. When I saw the Shanghai World Expo reporters note that it was so hot and then say 85 degrees – it occurred to me that it is about 85 degrees here and it is – in the shade. It had to be at least 90 degrees in the sun and I chased the shady spots from the trees on the sidewalk all the way to the store. Mostly it isn’t shady though.
This evening I went through a number of the transcripts from April 26 on CNN from among the shows there to understand a little more about how the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was considered at the time. Now that more is known about how much crude oil is pouring into the waters of the Gulf, I find it hard to believe it was allowed to get this far out of hand. Throughout the early a.m. hours as I’ve watched the occasional bloomberg story play about it – they are showing a reporter in front of one of those really expensive electronic blackboard looking gadgets. And, each time I see it – I want to write up there to the folks at bloomberg and tell them a couple things.
– cricketdiane
Oil Spewing into the Gulf of Mexico will not be magically fixed once the dome gets over one of the gushing oil leaks – if they get it over the oil leak without knocking the blow-out preventer off of it – and the oil slick is larger than the thick oil shown in solid green on the NOAA maps
There goes that man on bloomberg again right now about the oil spill – and there is a really large space contained within a single green line on the NOAA chart – I think that is the oil slick boundaries. That he stands there and tells the audience where the problem exists is simply in the solid green area indicating the thick oil – seems a bit out of whack.
And then, to say those birds in the picture are all fine because they aren’t standing in the thick crude oil yet – does this guy not understand that these birds eat fish?
– my note
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Hmmm…. there’s more than what was clearly evident on the minerals management service page directly –
Doing a google search using the terms Minerals Management Service gives these several and their abbreviated name form – (OEMM), etc.
Offshore Energy and Minerals Management (OEMM) Program Home Page
The MMS is working with the U.S. Coast Guard and the operator of the drilling … MMS estimates of oil and gas resources in undiscovered fields on the OCS …
www.mms.gov/offshore/
Minerals Management Service – Gulf of Mexico Region Homepage
Welcome to the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Region of the Minerals Management Service (MMS). MMS is a bureau of the Department of the …
http://www.gomr.mms.gov/
Rule change by federal regulators allowed BP to avoid drawing up blowout plan for Gulf rig
By: MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and RICHARD T. PIENCIAK
Associated Press
05/06/10 4:25 AM EDT
NEW ORLEANS — Petrochemical giant BP didn’t file a plan to specifically handle a major oil spill from an uncontrolled blowout at its Deepwater Horizon project because the federal agency that regulates offshore rigs changed its rules two years ago to exempt certain projects in the central Gulf region, according to an Associated Press review of official records.
The Minerals Management Service, an arm of the Interior Department known for its cozy relationship with major oil companies, says it issued the rule relief because some of the industrywide mandates weren’t practical for all of the exploratory and production projects operating in the Gulf region.
( . . . )
Instead, a site-specific exploration plan filed by BP in February 2009 stated that it was “not required” to file “a scenario for a potential blowout” of the Deepwater well.
When questioned about the exemption claim, BP spokesman William Salvin said provisions for handling a blowout incident were actually included in the firm’s 582-page region oil spill plan, though he had difficulty pointing to specific passages.
He later maintained that the Deepwater location was not subject to the blowout scenario requirements because it triggered none of the conditions cited in the MMS’s April 2008 notice to operators about a loosening of the rules.
Still, Salvin insisted the company was prepared to handle a blowout and catastrophic spill at the project through provisions included in its regional plan.
“We have a plan that has sufficient detail in it to deal with a blowout,” Salvin said, while acknowledging that the ongoing crisis at the Deepwater site is “uncontrolled.”
The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not the first time MMS has been criticized as being too close to the oil industry.
In 2008, the Interior Department took disciplinary action against eight MMS employees who accepted lavish gifts, partied and — in some cases — had sex with employees from the energy companies they regulated. An investigation cited a “culture of substance abuse and promiscuity” involving employees in the agency’s Denver office.
MMS workers were given upgraded ethics training.
My Note – probably the same thing that is happening to the SEC employees that were using the SEC computers for porn. Yes, in both case – those people could not tell right from wrong . . . right.
_(cricketdiane note – the AP writers who created the article about it are – )__
Associated Press Writer Richard T. Pienciak reported from Atlanta; AP Writer Jay Reeves reported from Gulf Shores, Ala.
MMS Royalty in Kind Announcement
The Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior announced a transitional phasing out of the Royalty in Kind (RIK) Program on September 16, 2009. As RIK oil and natural gas sales contracts expire, the oil and natural gas properties will revert to in-value status. As a result of the announcement, the upcoming natural gas sales (Gulf of Mexico and Wyoming) previously advertised will not be conducted.
As this transitional phase-out occurs, royalty obligations will revert from being collected in-kind to being collected in-value. Operators will be provided written notification of when these properties will be reverted. Dear Operator letters for the properties to be reverted beginning November 1, 2009, are posted on our website at: http://www.mrm.mms.gov/rikweb/RIKGasOperLts.htm
MMS will continue to post Dear Operator letters to our website and give prior written notification to operators on properties that will revert to in-value status as we phase out this program.
MMS thanks you for your support of and participation in the RIK Program. Please contact Pam Rieger at (303) 231-3020 for questions related to this notice.
Oil Sales Business Unit
This site lists historical sales and property information for the Unrestricted Crude Oil program, the Small Refiner program, and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve program (when active) in the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific OCS.
Gas Sales Business Unit
This site lists historical sales and property information for RIK Natural Gas sales in the Gulf of Mexico, Wyoming, and the BLM Helium project in Texas.
Credit
This site explains how the RIK credit process works.
Performance Measurement
This document describes how RIK measures and reports the performance of sales of crude oil and natural gas against what may be expected in the marketplace for other commercial activities.
RIK Studies and Reports
This site lists historical RIK reports and studies, including previous annual reports.
RIK Policy and Procedures
This site provides documents that give an overall description of the policies, processes and procedures used by the various RIK Offices to conduct their activities.
RIK Key Contacts/FAX/Mailing Addresses
This site provides RIK manager contacts, fax numbers, and overnight and regular mailing addresses.
| Mailing Address: | Overnight Delivery: |
| Minerals Management Service Asset Sales and Accounting P.O. Box 25165, MS 61120B Denver, CO 80225-0165Fax Number: 303-231-3846 |
Minerals Management Service Asset Sales and Accounting 6th & Kipling Denver Federal Center, Building 85 MS 61120B Denver, CO 80225 |
For questions: Contact David Denson, 281-987-6807 for credit; Kimbra Davis, 303-231-3514 for RIK oil; Pam Rieger, 303-231-3020 for RIK gas; or Judi Clark at 303-231-3537 for nominations, invoices, and production imbalances. |
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gao oil petroleum minerals management services
– I was looking for the GAO report but I wanted to do it without having to use their onsite search engine – and I found this –
cricketdiane
GAO finds flaws in MMS Alaska unit’s NEPA review practices
Nick Snow
OGJ Washington Editor
WASHINGTON, DC, Apr. 9 — The lack of a comprehensive guidebook, combined with high staff turnover in recent years, potentially handicaps the US Minerals Management Service’s Alaska regional office’s efforts to develop to adequately develop federal environmental assessments, the US Government Accountability Office said.
“Although [US Department of the Interior] policy directs its agencies to prepare handbooks providing guidance on how to implement [the National Environmental Policy Act], MMS lacks such a guidance handbook,” it said in a report that was posted Apr. 7 on its web site.
The absence also has left unclear MMS’s policy on what constitutes a significant environmental impact, GAO said, adding, “Furthermore, guidance is also lacking for conducting and documenting NEPA-required analyses to address environmental and cultural sensitivities, which have often been the topic of litigation over Alaskan offshore oil and gas development.”
The report noted that in addition to being sued, MMS has been subjected to allegations by some of its former scientists that their work on environmental issues was suppressed or altered. “GAO also found that the Alaska OCS region shares information selectively,” it continued. “This practice is inconsistent with agency policy, which directs that information, including proprietary data from industry, be shared with all staff involved in environmental reviews.”
Alaska MMS employees have commented that this practice has hindered their ability to complete sound environmental analyses under NEPA, GAO said.
The report confirmed what many environmental and Alaska Native interests have been saying for years, according to Cindy Shogan, executive director of the Alaska Wilderness League. “Good decision-making requires solid information, and that has been missing from the Alaska MMS decision-making for some time,” she said on Apr. 7. “Now it turns out that MMS intentionally kept key information from its own experts. This is outrageous.”
Oil Sales Business Unit
This site lists historical sales and property information for the Unrestricted Crude Oil program, the Small Refiner program, and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve program (when active) in the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific OCS.
RIK Studies and Reports
This site lists historical RIK reports and studies, including previous annual reports.
RIK Policy and Procedures
This site provides documents that give an overall description of the policies, processes and procedures used by the various RIK Offices to conduct their activities.
My Note –
I clicked on the RIK Policy and Procedures link (above) and then noticing the two pdf’s on the page with the policies on them and I’m tired – so I clicked on the left sidebar button “Financial Management” which yielded this –
http://www.mrm.mms.gov/ReportingServices/RepServhome.htm
from a Royalty In Kind Oil and Gas Leases (maybe mining leases too, going to have to check that.)
which is a good “follow the money” plan first of all –
US Department of the Interior,
Minerals Management Service
FM — Who We Are
Financial Management Branches and Responsibilities
| The Financial Management (FM) Division Chief is Robert Prael. | |
| The FM Staff Accountant is Katherine Martinez. | |
| The FM Division consists of four branches: | |
| Accounting Services (AS) – Manager, Paul Knueven | |
| Financial Services (FS) – Manager, Hans Meingast | |
| Production Accounting and Verification Services (PAVS) – Manager, Louise Williams | |
| Reporting Services (RS) – Manager, Lorraine Corona | |
| Accounting Services | |
| • | Processes all rents, royalties and bonuses paid to MRM for Federal or Indian mineral leases (currently >$11 billion per year) |
| • | Maintains the general ledger for MRM (assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses) |
| • | Manages investment portfolios in excess of $1.1 billion in value |
| • | Prepares, reconciles, verifies and transmits all required financial reports to Treasury and to the Department of the Interior |
| • | Distributes revenues in accordance with Federal law (to States, Counties, other Federal agencies, and BIA – for Indian Tribes and individual Indian allottees) |
| • | Provides Explanation of Payment data to all recipients |
| • | Prepares daily deposit reconciliations for the monies deposited with Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians |
| Financial Services | |
| • | Ensures that industry reporters follow Federal laws, regulations, and lease terms in their financial reporting to the MRM |
| • | Bills for late payment interest on Federal, Indian, Solid Mineral, and Geothermal leases |
| • | Bills for insufficient estimates on Federal, Indian, Solid Mineral, and Geothermal leases |
| • | Bills for over-recoupments on Indian Leases |
| • | Bills for rental, minimum royalty, deferred bonus, rights-of-way and other financial term exceptions |
| • | Pays interest for overpayments on Federal leases |
| • | Prepares manual bills for civil penalty, diligent exploration expense, and other miscellaneous collections/billing actions (debt collection) |
| • | Serves as a customer service focal point for customers to answer any financial questions (bill questions, database questions, and payment questions) |
| • | Provides both formal and informal training to industry |
| Production Accounting and Verification Services | |
| • | Establishes and maintains well/FMP reference database, including error correction |
| • | Provides formal and one-on-one training to industry reporters |
| • | Receives and processes production reports |
| • | Verifies corroborative reports to production reports and source documents |
| • | Coordinates with BLM and OEMM on surface management issues |
| • | Manages electronic reporting activities |
| Reporting Services | |
| • | Establishes and maintains the reference database, including error correction |
| • | Conducts data mining activities including adjustment line monitoring and volume comparisons |
| • | Provides both formal and informal training to industry reporters |
| • | Receives and processes royalty reports |
| • | Coordinates with BLM and OMM on surface management issues |
| • | Manages electronic reporting activities |
http://www.mrm.mms.gov/ReportingServices/WhoWeAre.htm
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GAO’s report also said Birnbaum should take appropriate steps to ensure that MMS’s Alaska OCS region follows the policy for sharing or otherwise making information, including that which it considers proprietary, available to all staff members involved in the information’s technical or environmental review.
Implementing recommendations
An MMS spokesman said the agency is taking steps to implement GAO’s recommendations. “The frontier areas offshore Alaska need additional exploration and scientific, environmental, and spill risk analysis before additional areas are offered for leasing,” he told OGJ Apr. 9 via e-mail. “It is therefore extremely important that the MMS’s Alaska region staff have comprehensive [NEPA] guidance and that information is readily available and shared as necessary to ensure our analyses and reviews are complete.”
GAO prepared the report in response to a request by US Rep. Norman D. Dicks (D-Wash.), who chairs the House Appropriations Committee’s Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee. Dicks asked the service to review issues surrounding oil and gas development in the North Aleutian basin, which US Interior Ken Salazar subsequently removed from the administration’s proposed 2012-17 OCS schedule. The report addresses issues and offers recommendations about other Alaska OCS areas too, the MMS spokesman said.
The report recommended that Salazar direct MMS Director S. Elizabeth Birnbaum set a deadline for issuing a comprehensive NEPA handbook with guidance on how to implement the law, and periodically update and revise the information. “Such guidance should detail procedures for conducting and documenting NEPA-required analyses, including how determinations of significance are to be made and how scientific findings are to be reviewed,” it said.
Responding to a draft of the report on Mar. 1, Wilma A. Lewis, assistant US Interior secretary for land and minerals management, said that MMS plans to issue comprehensive NEPA guidance to headquarters and regional employees by Dec. 31.
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My Note –
The ship left port with the dome to stick over the blow-out preventer and whatever other contraptions they have on the oil gushers that are leaking in the Gulf Coast areas. The ship was shown on CNN leaving about dusk thirty today and is expected to have it installed by the weekend (over the next couple days.) There are areas of thick oil that are expected to be brought up close and burned off again using their controlled burn plan.
And, who knows what it will look like by the time all that is finished filling the air and waters with crud. I’m going to continue work on this tomorrow. I want to be awake in time to see the results of the UK election today at whatever time is their 10 pm plus however long it takes for them to guesstimate how the votes tally.
So, until tomorrow and maybe they will have made all the toxic chemicals, spewing oil, thick crude oil, pretty rainbow colored nasty oil slick and black petroleum clouds of smoke all magically disappear into the ludicrous rhetoric as usual.
Sunday – US Interior Ken Salazar, on Fox News said that more than 30,000 oil and natural gas wells have been drilled in the Gulf of Mexico’s waters.
The oil slick on April 26 was reported to be 60 miles wide – what is it now?
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Other MMS Topic Indices and Site Maps
5-Year OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program
5-Year Leasing Program (Overview/Home Page)
Advisory Committees – Home Page
Alaska Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Region – Home Page
Alternative Energy Programs
Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Region – Home Page
Congressional Affairs Office
Congressional Testimony of MMS and DOI officials
Contact Us
Deepwater Environmental Information
Deepwater Exploration and Development
Director’s Page
Environmental Compliance – legal requirements, policies and procedures.
Environmental Studies – Reading Room
Environmental Research
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and How to Obtain Information Under the FOIA
Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Region – Home Page
Herndon Elementary School – MMS Partnership School
Information on MMS Offshore activities and procedures. Publications, production data and
statistical information, forms. etc.
Information Quality Guidelines
International Activities
Job Opportunities in MMS and Jobs Vacancies in the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region
Kids Pages and Educational Resources
Kids’ Pages (Headquarters)
Alaska Kids Corner
Gulf of Mexico Educational Resources – Lagniappe
Pacific Region Kids, Teachers, and Education, Pacific Kids Playground
Stacey Visits an Offshore Oil Rig
Lease Information and Leasing Program
Legal and Regulatory References
Links to Related Sites and Minerals Revenue Management’s Links to Related Sites
Manuals on MMS and DOI policies, procedures, and responsibilities
Maps and Geographic Information System (GIS) Data
Minerals Revenue Management (MRM) – Home Page
Miscellaneous MMS Information
MMS Library and Reading Room
MMS Milestones
MMS Ocean Science
MRM Federal Register – Notices, Information Collections, Proposed and Final Rules
MRM Valuation Guidance – Product Valuation
Navigation Tips
Newsroom
News Releases: Headquarters, Alaska Region, Gulf of Mexico Region, Pacific Region,
Minerals Revenue Management, Other News links
Offshore Energy and Minerals Management (OEMM) Program – Home Page
Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing Program
Offshore programs, activities, and related information, Overview
Offshore Publications
Oil Valuation
Operations, Oil and Gas development from exploration to decommissioning.
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) – Definition, Description, and Maps
Pacific Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Region – Home Page
Partnerships
Press Releases
National
Alaska Region
Gulf of Mexico Region
Pacific Region
Mineral Revenue Management
Privacy Act and Disclaimers
Products and Services
Publications (Newsroom)
Publications, Offshore – available publications (online & paper copies)
Regulations – including rules being developed, public participation, and compliance requirements.
Reporting Information – Dear Payor/Reporter Letters – reporting revenue to MMS
Resources of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)
Royalties and Revenues – Reading Room
Royalty Relief
Safety and Oil Spill Research
Sand and Gravel Program – development of marine mineral resources on the Outer Continental Shelf
Scientific and Technical – Reading Room
Special Projects of the Offshore Energy and Minerals Management
Statistics – Mineral Commodities & Revenue Statistics
Stats and Facts – Technical Information about MMS Offshore Activities
Strategic Planning – MMS Strategic Plan, Annual Performance Plans, and Annual Performance Reports
Sustainable Development of Offshore Mineral Resources
Studies and Reports of the Minerals Revenue Management
Tribal Services – MMS MRM Office of Indian Royalty Assistance; Who We Are
For problems or to suggest other topics or pages to be included, please email OEMM Web Team.
(from)
http://www.mms.gov/topics/topic-index.htm
http://www.mrm.mms.gov/ReportingServices/WhoWeAre.htm
- Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior
(from)
http://www.mrm.mms.gov/Links.htm
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Information Resources
| Bureau of Labor Statistics | |
| EnviroFACTS – Single point access to U.S. EPA environmental data | |
| Federal Register | |
| FedLaw – Center for Regulatory Effectiveness | |
| Fedstats – One stop shopping for Federal statistics | |
| FedWorld | |
| Federal Citizen Information Center – National Contact Center | |
| Library of Congress | |
| National Archives and Records Administration | |
| Office of the National Ombudsman – Small Business Administration | |
| Regulations – Your one stop site to comment on Federal regulations | |
| Statistical Abstract of the United States | |
| THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet | |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | |
| U.S. Government Printing Office | |
| United States Code |
The Executive Branch
| Council on Environmental Quality | |
| National Environmental Policy Act Net |
Department of Commerce
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |
| National Marine Fisheries Service | |
| National Oceanographic Data Center | |
| Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management | |
| National Geophysical Data Center |
Department of Energy
| Energy Information Administration | |
| National Petroleum Council | |
Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center |
Department of the Interior
| Bureau of Land Management | |
| Bureau of Indian Affairs | |
| Bureau of Reclamation | |
| Fish and Wildlife Service | |
| Minerals Management Service |
| National Park Service |
Land and Water Conservation Fund Historic Preservation Fund
| Office of Surface Mining | |
| United States Geologic Survey |
| Office of Pipeline Safety | |
| Research and Special Programs Administration |
Other Executive Branch Agencies
| Environmental Protection Agency | |||
| Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | |||
Department of Homeland Security
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| Naval Oceanographic Office | |||
| Occupational Safety & Health Administration |
International
Law of the Sea World Meteorological Organization
| United Kingdom Health and Safety Executive | |
| United Nations Environmental Program-Arctic | |
| United States Arctic Research Commission | |
| United States International Polar Year |
State Natural Resource & Environmental Agencies/Commissions
| Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission | |
| Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission | |
| Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission | |
| Western Governors’ Association |
Alaska
| Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation | |
| Alaska Department of Natural Resources |
Atlantic
| Alabama Geological Survey | |
| Delaware Geological Survey | |
| New Jersey Geological Survey | |
| Maryland Geological Survey | |
| North Carolina Geological Survey |
California
| California Coastal Commission | |
| California Energy Commission | |
| California Environmental Protection Agency | |
| California Resources Agency |
California Ocean Resources Management Program
| California State Lands Commission |
Gulf of Mexico
| Florida Geological Survey | |
| Florida Department of Environmental Protection | |
| Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) | |
| Geological Survey of Alabama | |
| Louisiana Department of Natural Resources |
Office of Mineral Resources
| Railroad Commission of Texas | |
| Texas General Land Office Home Page |
Professional Associations
Non-Governmental Organizations
Information Resources
Oil and Gas
| Catalog of Crude Oil and Oil Product Properties | |
| Offshore Technology | |
| Oil Survey | |
| Petroleum Industry Data Exchange | |
| Petroleum Technology Transfer Council |
Natural Resources, Earth Science, and Offshore Environments
| Advisory Committees | Economics | Environmental Program | Gas Hydrates | Information | International Activities | Leasing | Marine Minerals |
| Open Access Hotline | Operations | Overview | Partnerships | PAY.GOV | Regulations | Renewable Energy | Resource Evaluation | Resources | Royalty Relief | Safety and Oil Spill Research | Safety Award for Excellence (SAFE) | Scientific & Technical Publications, Info | Self Inspections | Special Projects | Stats & Facts |
(from)
http://www.mms.gov/links/#Information%20Resources
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From the above list under the category –
Natural Resources, Earth Science, and Offshore Environments
Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A & M University, 1000 Discovery Drive, College Station, TX 77845 USA (979) 845-2673
ODP Final Technical Report (PDF; 47 Mb; November 2007)
Related web sites:
ODP Legacy: www.odplegacy.org
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP): www.iodp.org
IODP U.S. Implementing Organization (IODP-USIO): www.iodp-usio.org
The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and 22 international partners (JOIDES) to conduct basic research into the history of the ocean basins and the overall nature of the crust beneath the ocean floor using the scientific drill ship JOIDES Resolution. Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc. (JOI), a group of 18 U.S. institutions, was the Program Manager. Texas A&M University, College of Geosciences was the Science Operator. Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory provided Logging Services and administered the Site Survey Data Bank.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in these documents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, the participating agencies, Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc., Texas A&M University, or Texas A&M Research Foundation.
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My Note –
I will continue later today – (this afternoon)
And for the record – If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and talks like a duck – its a cat in a duck suit . . . (that’s what I’ve always said.)
– cricketdiane
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(or a duck in a cat suit – there’s just no telling.)
– that’s the real world for you. And, it is why it is good to have a sense of humor and a real good sense of adventure and curiosity.
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