TRUMP BOOSTS LONG-TERM OUTLOOK AS JONES ACT OWNERS LOOK TO CONSOLIDATE

摘要

In October, US secretary of the interior Ryan Zinke said the Department of the Interior was proposing a lease sale for 76,967,935 acres in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida - a move that one day could create significant demand for offshore oil and gas assets and vessels. The proposed region-wide lease sale, offering an area about the size of New Mexico, is scheduled for March 2018 and includes all available unleased areas on the Gulf's Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), surpassing last year's region-wide lease sale by about 1M acres.