BOEM, BSEE extend comment period for proposed Arctic drilling rules

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement extended the comment period for proposed oil and gas drilling regulations on the US Arctic Outer Continental Shelf by 30 days.

Nick Snow

April 17, 2015

Comments on the proposal, which the two US Department of the Interior agencies jointly announced in February (OGJ Online, Feb. 20, 2015), now will be accepted through May 27. The original 60-day comment period was scheduled to end on Apr. 27.

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Nick Snow

NICK SNOW covered oil and gas in Washington for more than 30 years. He worked in several capacities for The Oil Daily and was founding editor of Petroleum Finance Week before joining OGJ as its Washington correspondent in September 2005 and becoming its full-time Washington editor in October 2007. He retired from OGJ in January 2020.