Senate leader wants to extend flawed leases

摘要

Washington—US Senator Dianne Feinstein, head of the Senate Appropriation Committee’s Interior appropriations subcommittee, said February 13 she intends to write legislation to extend the time oil and companies can hold and produce from flawed 1998-1999 leases in exchange for the companies inserting missing price thresholds in the contracts and paying royalties on past production.