What does OCS stand for?

Outer Continental Shelf

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Byline: manish03 The Department of the Interior will hold an oil and natural gas lease sale for the Central Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf that will offer nearly 36 million acres and could produce up to 1.

UNited States : Oil and Natural Gas Lease Sale Announced

companies that hire them to perform offshore services for the oil and gas industry on the Outer Continental Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico.

IRS Takes Aim At Offshore Services To The Oil & Gas Industry

While the Interior Department is considered unlikely to adopt the Bush-era proposal wholesale, which was released on its last working day in office, it remains unclear whether the Obama administration will allow any expansion of Outer Continental Shelf drilling.

Senate blocks bid to keep offshore drilling policy

In addition to extending the public hearing deadline, he commissioned a report into "all our offshore resources" and vowed to hold meetings around the United States on how to move forward and develop the energy resources in the submerged lands, subsoil and seabed that make up the outer continental shelf.

US Interior Secretary blocks sale of offshore oil, gas leases

The US president also seized on Gustav to push the US Congress, controlled by his Democratic foes, to lift a legislative ban on oil drilling on the US outer continental shelf.

Bush: Gustav seems to spare oil production

Petroleum development on the outer continental shelf of the West Coast will put important segments of our state's economy at risk.

We cannot drill our way to lower gas prices

11 request that Congress pass legislation allowing drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf.

Quotable

According to NPCA, 85% of the natural gas supply on the Outer Continental Shelf is currently off-limits to exploration.

NPCA joins Energy Security alliance