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Luthi: OCS oil and gas leasing must move beyond gulf

03/17/2008
More federal Outer Continental Shelf areas must be opened for oil and gas leasing if the US expects to limit its energy imports, said US Minerals Management Service Director Randall B. Luthi.Effecting such a change “won’t happen overnight,” he said in opening remarks to the US Department of Interior agency’s 2007 OCS Policy Committee Mar. 5 in Herndon, Va. “It will require substantial education. State and local governments could be the key. MMS is anxious to work with them,”Oil and gas industry executives on the committee agreed. “There aren’t many new places left to look in the US offshore,” William A. Van Wie told OGJ. “We shou...
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