Watching over the lease suspensions

GAO recommends that BLM improves its oversight of leases where the temporary cessation of operations or production has been permitted

Alan Bailey

Petroleum News

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has issued a report pointing out some deficiencies in the way that the Bureau of Land Management oversees oil and gas lease suspensions. The report makes recommendations for improvements. The report says that at the end of fiscal year 2016 BLM was overseeing....

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A variety of reasons

Data quality

Lack of monitoring procedures

Four recommendations