Oil companies have offered $279 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico in the first offshore lease sale in the ...

Thirty oil companies, including Chevron, Shell and BP, paid the United States Department of the Interior around $279 million ...

This sale generated $279.4m in high bids for 181 blocks located within 80 million acres of federal waters in the GoM.

Gulf states will get a new boost in shared revenue from offshore oil and gas leases, the Department of the Interior announced Tuesday. The Trump administration has raised the cap on how much states ...

Offshore oil and gas production does not happen overnight - it takes years of planning, investment, and hard work before barrels reach the market', U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said.

Governor Ron De Santis and Florida Republicans have openly criticized President Donald Trump's offshore drilling plan for the Gulf of America.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday unveiled a comprehensive schedule to hold more than 30 offshore oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's Cook Inlet over the ...

As governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum bragged about his state’s wind energy. He shed those views when he became Interior secretary. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has taken a wrecking ball to the U ...

Environmentalists said the fossil fuel sales would put wildlife in the Gulf at an higher risk of dying in oil spills. Spills ...