GAO testifies on BLM energy oversight

Comments on recommendations relating to lease revenues, well bonding, royalty compliance and minimizing methane emissions

Alan Bailey

for Petroleum News

In recent testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources, the Government Accountability Office overviewed some concerns about issues relating to Bureau of Land Management oversight of energy leasing on federal land. In Alaska, BLM manages oil and gas exploration and development in the Na....

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Land lease revenues

Bonding and well remediation

Royalty compliance

Methane emissions