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The issue of allowing oil and gas exploration offshore Florida became a hotly contested topic in the 2008 US elections. In a column published 5 June 2008, syndicated columnist George Will wrote that a Chinese oil company was then drilling in Cuban waters 60 miles (97 km) from the Florida coast, a claim that was repeated by candidates in favor ...
Map of wells drilled in federal waters, Gulf of Mexico; Christopher D. French and Christopher J. Schenk, (1997) Map Showing Geology, Oil and Gas Fields, and Geologic Provinces of the Gulf of Mexico Region Archived 2017-05-05 at the Wayback Machine, US Geological Survey, Open-File Report OFR 97-470-L, PDF file, downloaded 24 January 2010.
About one-fifth of this amount — $26.1 billion — was generated by the oil and gas industry. According to the New Mexico Tax Research Institute, total state and local government spending in ...
In 2008, federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico produced 418 million barrels (66,500,000 m 3) of oil, down from 568 million barrels (90,300,000 m 3) in 2002; however, due to new deep-water discoveries, the MMS projects that oil production from the Gulf of Mexico will increase to 686 million barrels (109,100,000 m 3) per year by 2013.
A sale of New Mexico public land for oil and gas drilling brought in about $22 million, mostly from the booming Permian Basin region in the southeast corner of the state.
The oil and gas industry provides about a third of the state revenue in New Mexico. The oil and gas industry is paying the bills at a federal level as well. Recent data from the Department of ...
The Straits of Florida The Florida straits, the J-shaped channel between southeastern Florida and the Bahamas, and the Florida Keys and Cuba.. The Straits of Florida, Florida Straits, or Florida Strait (Spanish: Estrecho de Florida) is a strait located south-southeast of the North American mainland, generally accepted to be between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, and between the ...
An area of Lincoln National Forest known for a complex cave system was protected from oil and gas drilling and other mineral extraction, with the block on development extending for 20 years.