Arctic Pulled From Final Obama Offshore Plan, Unleashing Backlash

摘要

Industry was reeling Friday after the Obama administration opted to pull the US Arctic from its final version of the next five-year US offshore plan for oil and natural gas leases. For producer trade groups, it seemed like the second blow of a one-two punch from the Interior Department. The first one landed eight months ago when Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) eliminated plans for a single lease sale in the Atlantic Ocean from its March draft of the 2017-22 program (NGW Mar.21'16).