Thursday, December 4, 2025
BOEM Oil & Gas 360

U.S. to offer 48 Million Acres in its Last Central Gulf of Mexico Oil & Gas Lease Sale

Final Notice of Sale announces lease terms for available acreage offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama – Lease Sale Number 247 is Mar. 22, 2017 Two days after President Obama used his pen to indefinitely ban most of the Arctic and some of the Atlantic to oil and gas drilling, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced its Notice of