The “Big Beautiful Bill” and the Gulf of America

Oil and Gas Leasing Gets Boost in Alaska and the Gulf of America

The Department of Interior (DOI) is proposing to reopen up to 82%of the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) to oil and gas leasing and has announced a lease sale in the Gulf of America (Mexico) for December 10 on about 80 million acres. The lease sale in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) is the first of only three lease sales that the Biden administration put in its five-year plan, which has the fewest ever oil and gas a…

The “Big Beautiful Bill” and the Gulf of America

Guest “Yee-haw!” by David Middleton, A brief recap From 2017 through 2020, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held seven area-wide Gulf of America (GOA) lease sales. From 2021…

49% of oil on federal lands in Alaska, the USGS has estimated - July 13, 2025

The U.S. Geological Survey, in an estimate released in late June, said 49% of undiscovered technically recoverable oil resources on federal onshore land are in Alaska. The national total is 29.414 billion barrels of oil, of which the estimate for Alaska is 14.458 billion. Ranking is by volumetric m...