Press Release Catalog 2002

12/31/2002
  • 11/22/02 Notice of Availability of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Locations and Dates of Public Hearings on Proposed Eastern Planning Area Lease Sales 189 and 197
  • 11/15/02 MMS Issues Proposed Notice of Central Gulf Lease Sale
  • 10/31/02 Studies Initiated On Benefits Of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems
  • 10/30/02 MMS Launches New Oil and Gas Information Online System
  • 10/16/02 MMS Preliminary Report Finds Most Facilities Withstood Hurricane Lili; 6 Platforms Out of 800 with Severe Damage; MMS Buoy Provides Important Data
  • 10/03/02 Gulf Storms Shut Down U.S. Offshore Oil And Natural Gas Production
  • 09/26/02 Tropical Storm Isidore takes a bite out of U.S. Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Production
  • 09/16/02 Assateague Island Gets New Lease on Life
  • 08/21/02 Western Gulf of Mexico Sale 184 Attracts $151,265,255 in High Bids
  • 08/09/02 MMS Awards Second Phase of Contracts to Deliver Royalty in Kind Oil To Fill the Nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve
  • 07/30/02 MMS Identifies Areas for Proposed 2003 and 2005 Lease Sales in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico
  • 07/24/02 32 States Receive $318 Million in First Half of 2002 as Share of Federal Mineral Revenues
  • 07/02/02 Incentive Granted on Offshore  Subsalt  Exploration
  • 07/01/02 New 5-Year Program for Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing for 2002-2007 is Approved
  • 06/18/02 Central Gulf of Mexico sale 182, Nets $355,792,253 in High Bids
  • 06/01/02 MMS Updates Oil & Gas Production Rate Projections to 2006; Steep Rise in Oil  
  • 05/29/02 Interior Reaches Agreement to Acquire Mineral Rights in Everglades, Settles Litigation on Offshore Oil and Gas Leases in Destin Dome
  • 05/20/02 Two New Rules Published in Federal Register
  • 05/20/02 Louisiana Beach To Get Sand For Restoration Project
  • 05/13/02 MMS Recognized for 'Rigs to Reefs' Program
  • 05/01/02 Texas Royalty in Kind Gas Nets Market Price
  • 04/11/02 MMS Honors Best in Industry
  • 04/09/02 Cruickshank Named Deputy Director
  • 04/03/02 Navajo Perry Shirley Reelected Chairman of DOI's Royalty Policy Committee
  • 04/02/02 Yes, There Are Sperm Whales in the Gulf of Mexico
  • 03/27/02 MMS Restores Email and Web Access
  • 03/25/02 Minerals Management Service's Royalty Reporting System Is Up And Running -- Email and Web Access to Follow
  • 03/22/02 Ship of Wood in the Deep Blue Gulf: First Ever Scientific Investigation of Shipwreck in Deep Waters of Gulf of Mexico
  • 03/22/02 MMS Approved to Restore Systems, Connect to Internet
  • 03/20/02 Central Gulf of Mexico Sale 182 Attracts $ 363 Million in High Bids
  • 03/19/02 Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 182 Receives 697 Bids on 506 Tracts
  • 03/18/02 MMS Honors Best in Industry
  • 03/18/02 Secretary Norton Announces Proposed Five-Year Plan for Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing
  • 03/08/02 Royalty Policy Committee Meeting Set for Las Vegas
  • 03/07/02 MMS Recognizes Companies for Safety Excellence in the Gulf Of Mexico
  • 02/15/02 MMS Issues Final Notice of Central Gulf Lease Sale 182
  • 02/11/02 Thomas A. Readinger Is Appointed Associate Director of  the Minerals Management Service's Offshore Program
  • 02/11/02 Carolita U. Kallaur Retires from Federal Service
  • 02/08/02 MMS Awards First Contracts to Deliver Royalty in Kind Oil for Fill of the Nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve
  • 02/07/02 New Technologies to Overcome Arctic Challenges
  • 02/07/02 Rejane "Johnnie" Burton of Wyoming Tapped to Head Interior Department's Minerals Management Service
  • 02/04/02 33 States Receive Record $1 Billion in 2001 As Share of Mineral Revenues Located on Federal Lands
  • 02/04/02 President Requests $281 Million for FY 2003 MMS Budget
  • 01/29/02 Eastern Gulf of Mexico Sale 181 Nets $340 Million in High Bids
  • 01/22/02 MMS to Help Fill Nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve
  • 01/17/02 Secretary Norton Joins Minerals Management Service to Celebrate 20th Birthday
  • 01/15/02 Interior Department to Issue Final Rule on Applying for Deepwater Royalty Relief
  • 01/10/02 MMS Publishes Proposed Rule on Exploration Under Salt Sheets
  • 01/02/02 MMS Reaches Decision about FPSO's in Gulf of Mexico