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Obama Administration to offer 40 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas development

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Lease Sale 231 in the Central Planning Area and Lease Sale 225 in the Eastern Planning Area will be held consecutively in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 19 March 2014. million acres, located from three to 230 nautical miles offshore Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, in water depths ranging from 9 to more than 11,115 feet (3 to 3,400 meters).

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Chevron announces successful test well at deepwater St. Malo in Gulf of Mexico

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Malo development is located approximately 280 miles (450 km) south of New Orleans, Louisiana, in 7,000 feet (2,134 m) of water. The test, in Walker Ridge Block 678, targeted Lower Tertiary sands more than 20,000 feet (6,096 m) under the sea floor and was conducted during August and September 2012.

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Transocean to pay record $1.4 billion in civil and criminal fines and penalties for role in Deepwater Horizon disaster

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the owner of the drilling rig Deepwater Horion, agreed to plead guilty to violating the Clean Water Act (CWA) and to pay a total of $1.4 and related entities were filed in US District Court in the Eastern District of Louisiana. and related entities were filed in US District Court in the Eastern District of Louisiana.

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BOEM announces proposed Central Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale; nearly 38 million acres available

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The sale will include all available unleased areas in the Central Planning Area offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Lease Sale 216/222 is the last remaining sale scheduled in the 2007 – 2012 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Natural Gas Leasing Program.

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DOI: latest Gulf of Mexico oil & gas lease sales garner $872M in high bids

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Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the latest oil and gas lease sales for federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico garnered $872,143,771 million in high bids on 329 tracts covering 1,707,358 acres. million acres on the US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. billion in bid revenues.

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Chevron, BP and ConocoPhillips partner to explore 24 leases in Paleogene trend in deepwater Gulf of Mexico

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The Gila discovery was made by an exploration well on Keathley Canyon Block 93, about 300 miles (483 km) southwest of New Orleans, in approximately 4,900 feet (1,494 meters) of water. The Gila discovery is located approximately 25 miles (40 km) west of Tiber, also located in the Keathley Canyon area.

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NRC report concludes hydraulic fracturing poses low risk for causing earthquakes, but risks are higher for wastewater injection wells; CCS impact undetermined

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Schematic diagram of a shale gas well following hydraulic fracture treatment, with the relative depths of local water wells shown for scale. Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) extracts natural gas by injecting a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals in short bursts at high pressure into deep underground wells.

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