Proposed five-year OCS oil and gas lease sale schedule. Final supplement to the final environmental statement, January 1982-December 1986

Technical Report · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:5645500

This supplement considers a July 1981 proposed five-year schedule extending from January 1982 to December 1986 and consisting of 42 oil and gas leasing sales in 14 of the 23 planning areas offshore of the following states: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, California and Alaska. In this document, the proposed schedule dated July 1981 is examined using two different leasing options, one offering all of the acreage within a planning area and the other offering only areas of hydrocarbon potential. A second alternative re-examines the April 1981 draft proposed schedule. A third alternative examines the current schedule with two leasing options, one offering the current pace and system of leasing, the other using the current leasing system but offering larger amounts of acreage per sale. A fourth alternative concerns two modifications of the proposed schedule in Alaska. The first modification reduces the number of sales offshore Alaska while making adjustments in the timing of other Alaska sales. The second modification covered in this alternative proposes the deletion of all Arctic Ocean OCS sales and this too is analyzed with the area-wide and areas of hydrocarbon potential options. Preliminary estimates indicate the possible recovery of around 8.3 billion barrels of oil and around 39 trillion cubic feet of gas. The number of oil spills expected is predicted. Impacts to marine and coastal ecosystems will occur in excess of those described in the FEIS for the current schedule due to the larger number of sales and the increased amount of the available resources expected to be recovered. This supplement also describes the new leasing system and explains what effects it may have on the environment. Socio-economic factors are considered. (DMC)

• Research Organization: Bureau of Land Management, Washington, DC (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5645500
• Report Number(s): NP-2902490; ON: DE82902490
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ALABAMA
ALASKA
CALIFORNIA
CONNECTICUT
CONTINENTAL MARGIN
CONTINENTAL SHELF
DELAWARE
DOCUMENT TYPES
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
FEDERAL REGION I
FEDERAL REGION II
FEDERAL REGION III
FEDERAL REGION IV
FEDERAL REGION IX
FEDERAL REGION VI
FEDERAL REGION X
FLORIDA
FORECASTING
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
GEORGIA
INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS
LEASING
LOUISIANA
MAINE
MARYLAND
MASSACHUSETTS
MINERAL RESOURCES
MISSISSIPPI
NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
NEW YORK
NORTH AMERICA
NORTH CAROLINA
OIL SPILLS
PETROLEUM DEPOSITS
RESOURCE ASSESSMENT
RESOURCES
RHODE ISLAND
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
SOUTH CAROLINA
TEXAS
USA
VIRGINIA