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The Gulf continues to be the nation's primary offshore source of oil and gas, generating about 97% of all U.S. OCS oil and gas production. Since 2017, Gulf of Mexico lease sales have generated more than $1 billion in total bonus high bids from offshore leasing.
Lease Sale Information
- Lease Sales
- Summary Statistics for All Sales
- Combined Leasing Status Report
- Gulf of Mexico Interactive Lease Statistics Dashboard
This dashboard provides near real-time GOM Active Lease Statistics - Gulf of Mexico Region Lease Map (as of June 2, 2022)
This provides the total number of blocks, total acres, blocks leased and acres leased by planning area - Western and Central GOM Topographic Features Stipulation Map Package (updated March 2018)
- Top Ten Highest Bids on a Single Block for All Gulf Sales
- Top Ten Highest Number of Bids on a Single Block for All Gulf Sales
Leasing and Plans
- Leasing and Plans Important Notice - effective April 2, 2020
- Leasing and Plans Helpful Information
- Chief Notes
- Bid Adequacy Procedures
- Bonding
- Oil Spill Financial Responsibility (OSFR) for Offshore Facilities
- High-Resolution Geophysical Survey Application - allows the user to view and query High Resolution Geophysical Surveys that were completed in the Gulf of Mexico and submitted to BOEM as Geohazard/Archaeology Reports.
- Gulf Plans Workshop - an all day workshop held on July 18, 2017, in New Orleans.
Resource Evaluation
- OCS Report BOEM 2019-005 - Deepwater Gulf Of Mexico Report
- OCS Report BOEM 2017-082 - U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, Gulf of Mexico Region, Oil and Gas Production Forecast: 2018-2027
- Biostratigraphic Chart of the Gulf of Mexico Offshore Regions, Jurassic to Quaternary
- Indicated Hydrocarbon List
- OCS Operations Field Directory
- Seismic Water Bottom Anomalies Map Gallery
- Undiscovered Resources
Risk Management