Looking at the new landscape for OCS 12/26/2010
New regulations for offshore drilling have come into effect as BOEMRE continues to re-organize itself after Gulf of Mexico disaster
As 2010, the year that saw the worst ever oil spill in the United States, draws to a close, the oil industry is still assessing the impact of the changing regulatory environment in the wake of the exp...

Confusion reigns over Arctic moratorium 12/12/2010
Court testimony presents contradictory views of whether or not DOI imposed an Arctic OCS drilling moratorium after Deepwater Horizon
The war of words over whether or not the U.S. Department of the Interior imposed a drilling moratorium on the Arctic outer continental shelf earlier this year is continuing in the United States Court...

The Explorers 2010: Lower Cook Inlet risk, potential 11/14/2010
The lower Cook Inlet basin contains as much as 36,000 feet of marine Mesozoic strata. But in this area the Tertiary sequence that contains the oil and gas reservoirs in the upper Cook Inlet becomes ve...