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DOI and the DOI logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Department of the Interior. © ONRR 2010 Denver, CO]]> - The Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) collected $25 million from Shell Offshore Inc. in a settlement to resolve claims that the company underpaid royalties owed on oil and gas produced from federal leases. http://www.onrr.gov/about/pdfdocs/12-11ShellSettlementPressRelease.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Release Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Washington, DC]]> - A partnership among Department of the Interior agencies and American Indian communities in North Dakota has spurred a 400 percent increase in revenues from increased domestic energy production over last year – providing substantial economic benefits to the tribal government and individual mineral owners. http://www.onrr.gov/about/pdfdocs/01-12-12BakkenIndianRevenuesrelease.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Release Thursday, January 12, 2012 Denver, CO]]> - The Department of the Interior's Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) today published a Federal Register Notice establishing an Indian Oil Valuation Negotiated Rulemaking Committee charged with bringing clarity and consistency to oil valuation regulations governing production on American Indian lands. http://www.onrr.gov/about/pdfdocs/12-11_Negotiated_Rulemaking_Committee_Established.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Release Thursday, December 8, 2011 Denver, CO]]> - The Department of the Interior's Office of Natural Resources Revenue's (ONRR) audit organization has received the highest possible rating following an independent peer review that examined three years of the agency's royalty auditing work. http://www.onrr.gov/about/pdfdocs/ONRR_Peer_Review_Successful_11-02-11.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Thursday, December 1, 2011 Washington, DC]]> - The Department of the Interior collected $11.16 billion from energy production on public lands and offshore areas in fiscal year 2011 – a $2 billion increase over the previous year – and disbursed those revenues among federal, state and tribal governments, while funding reclamation, conservation and preservation accounts. http://www.onrr.gov/about/pdfdocs/11BillionMineralsrevenuesRevised_v2.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Tuesday, November 7, 2011 Denver, CO]]> - The Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue announced today that more than $1.99 billion was disbursed to 37 states as part of the state share of Federal revenues collected in Fiscal Year 2011 from energy production that occurred on Federal lands within their borders, and offshore in the Outer Continental Shelf. http://www.onrr.gov/about/pdfdocs/FY2011StateDisbursements.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Monday, November 7, 2011 Fiscal Year 2011 Phase I Allocations http://www.onrr.gov/pdfdocs/GOMESAFY2011Final.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Washington DC]]> - BP Amoco Corp. and several affiliates have agreed to pay the United States $20.5 million to resolve claims that the companies violated the False Claims Act by knowingly underpaying royalties owed on natural gas produced from Federal and American Indian leases. The announcement was made today by the Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) and the U.S. Justice Department. http://www.onrr.gov/about/pdfdocs/20110916.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Release Friday, September 16, 2011 Denver, CO]]> - The Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) announced today that three public workshops have been scheduled to discuss issues related to existing Federal oil and gas royalty valuation regulations. http://www.onrr.gov/about/pdfdocs/20110913.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Release Friday, September 9, 2011 Denver, CO]]> - The Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) announced today that three public workshops have been scheduled to discuss issues related to existing royalty valuation regulations for coal produced from Federal and American Indian leases. http://www.onrr.gov/about/pdfdocs/20110913a.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Release Friday, September 9, 2011 Denver, CO]]> - The Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) announces three public workshops to discuss specific issues regarding the existing Federal oil and gas royalty valuation regulations at 30 CFR parts 1202 and 1206 for oil and gas produced from Federal onshore and offshore oil and gas leases. http://onrr.gov/Laws_R_D/FRNotices/PDFDocs/55838.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif Federal Register Notices Friday, September 9 2011 Denver, CO]]> - The Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) announces three public workshops to discuss specific issues regarding the existing royalty valuation regulations at 30 CFR parts 1202 and 1206 for coal produced from Federal and Indian leases. http://onrr.gov/Laws_R_D/FRNotices/PDFDocs/55837.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif Federal Register Notices Friday, September 9 2011 Denver, CO]]> - The Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) announced today it collected a $136,000 civil penalty from Energy Resources Technology, Inc., for knowing failure to permit an audit. http://onrr.gov/About/PDFDocs/8-11EnergyResourcesCivilPenalty.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Release Tuesday, August 23 2011 Denver, CO]]> - The Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) announced today it collected a $1.1 million civil penalty from Chevron U.S.A. for improperly claiming transportation deductions on certain leases it holds in the Gulf of Mexico. http://www.onrr.gov/about/pdfdocs/20110720.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Release Wednesday, July 20 2011 Washington, DC]]> - Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Kerr-McGee Corporation and their affiliates have agreed to pay the United States $16.375 million plus interest to resolve claims that the companies violated the False Claims Act by knowingly underpaying royalties owed on natural gas produced from federal and American Indian leases, and numerous additional administrative claims, the Justice Department and the Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) announced today." http://www.onrr.gov/about/pdfdocs/20110620.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Release Monday, June 20 2011 Washington, DC]]> - The Department of the Interior and its Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) announced today that the Department is soliciting public comments and suggestions to simplify regulations governing the valuation of coal produced on Federal and American Indian leases. http://www.onrr.gov/about/pdfdocs/20110526.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Release Thursday, May 26 2011 Washington, DC]]> - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the Department is evaluating the potential streamlining of regulations that govern the calculation of royalties owed to the United States from oil and natural gas produced offshore and on federal lands. Current regulations require complex, transaction-by-transaction evaluations of the negotiated price for the oil and gas produced on public lands, followed by an analysis of the costs associated with the transportation and gas processing. http://www.onrr.gov/about/pdfdocs/20110524.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Release Tuesday, May 24 2011 Washington, DC]]> - Shell Oil Company, Shell Offshore Inc., Shell Frontier Oil Gas Inc., and Shell Western Exploration and Production (Shell Defendants) have agreed to pay the United States $2.2 million plus interest to resolve claims that the companies violated the False Claims Act by knowingly underpaying royalties owed on natural gas produced from Federal leases, the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. http://www.onrr.gov/about/pdfdocs/20110510.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Release Tuesday, May 10 2011 Washington, DC]]> - Occidental Petroleum Corporation, Occidental Oil and Gas Corporation, and OXY USA Inc. have agreed to pay the United States $2.05 million plus interest to resolve claims that the companies violated the False Claims Act by knowingly underpaying royalties owed on natural gas produced from federal leases, the Department of Justice announced today. Occidental Petroleum Corporation is an international oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Los Angeles. http://www.onrr.gov/about/pdfdocs/363_CIV.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Release Tuesday, March 22 2011 Denver, CO]]> - ONRR Asset Valuation has published Annual Unbundling factors for the Carlsbad gathering system and dew point plant. http://www.onrr.gov/Unbundling/pdf/Enterprise%20Carlsbad%20Transportation%20System%20and%20Dew%20Point%20Plant.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif Payor and Reporter Monday, March 14 2011 Denver, CO]]> - The Department of the Interior's Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) has been notifying energy companies that report electronically of a neweCommerce Reporting Web Site that went "live" on March 1, 2011. http://www.onrr.gov/About/PDFDocs/2-1_eCommerce_press_release.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Release Tuesday, March 1 2011 Washington, DC]]> - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the Department is proposing to establish a negotiated rulemaking committee to replace outdated regulations governing the valuation of oil produced on American Indian lands. The Secretary urged interested parties to nominate members for the committee and offer comments on the proposal. http://www.onrr.gov/About/PDFDocs/20110128.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Release Friday, January 28 2011 Denver, CO]]> - The Department of the Interior's Office of Natural Resources Revenue announced today that more than $1.8 billion was disbursed to 34 states as part of the state share of Federal revenues collected in Fiscal Year 2010 from energy production that occurred on Federal onshore lands and offshore in the Outer Continental Shelf. http://www.onrr.gov/About/PDFDocs/20101104a.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Release Thursday, November 04 2010 Washington, DC]]> – The Department of the Interior disbursed more than $1.8 billion to 34 states and more than $407 million to 34 American Indian Tribes and 30,000 individual Indian mineral owners as part of their share of receipts from onshore and offshore energy production during Fiscal Year 2010, Secretary Ken Salazar announced today. http://www.onrr.gov/About/PDFDocs/20101104b.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR News Release Thursday, November 04 2010 $2.3 million disbursed to Treasury, Gulf states, special funds Denver, CO]]> - The Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) disbursed more than $2.3 million to U.S. Treasury accounts, the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and to four coastal states and eligible political subdivisions under provisions of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 (GOMESA), Rhea Suh, the Department of the Interior's Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget, announced today. http://www.onrr.gov/About/PDFDocs/20101015.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR Press Release Friday, October 15 2010 Fiscal year 2010 Allocations]]> - Qualified GOMESA revenues are transferred to the U.S. Treasury and to the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) in the month following the month of receipt, and disbursed to the States and Coastal Political Subdivisions in the Fiscal Year following the year of receipt. http://www.boemre.gov/offshore/PDFs/GOMESAFY2010Final.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR Information Tuesday, October 5 2010 On May 19, 2010, the Secretary of the Interior separated the responsibilities previously performed by the former Minerals Management Service (MMS) and reassigned those responsibilities to three separate organizations. As part of this reorganization, the Secretary renamed MMS's Minerals Revenue Management Program (MRM) the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) and directed that ONRR transition to the Office of the Assistant Secretary—Policy, Management and Budget (PMB).]]> This change requires reorganization of title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations (30 CFR). This direct final rule amends chapter II in 30 CFR, establishes a new chapter XII in 30 CFR, removes certain regulations from chapter II, and recodifies them in the new chapter XII. http://www.onrr.gov/FM/PDFDocs/20091106.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR Information Monday, Oct 4 2010 The Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 Report to Congress fulfills the annual requirement under section 342 (e)(2) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that the Secretary of the Interior submit to Congress a report that describes the performance, benefits, and savings associated with the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) Royalty in Kind (RIK) Program.
Denver, CO ]]>- This report also serves as the annual update for other program stakeholders detailing the history, current status, operational condition, and successes of the MMS RIK Program over the past year. http://www.onrr.gov/AssetManagement/PDFDocs/FY09RIKAnnualReport.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR Information Monday, October 4 2010 The ONRR is proposing to promulgate regulations establishing procedures to implement the provisions governing collection of delinquent royalties, rentals, bonuses, and other amounts due under leases and other agreements for the production of oil, natural gas, coal, geothermal energy, other minerals, and renewable energy from Federal lands onshore, Indian tribal and allotted lands, and the Outer Continental Shelf under 30 CFR Part 218]]> - The proposed regulations would include provisions for administrative offset and would clarify and codify the provisions of the Debt Collection Act of 1982 (DCA) and the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 (DCIA). http://www.onrr.gov/Laws_R_D/FRNotices/PDFDocs/32343.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR Information Tuesday, June 8 2010 Notice Terminating the Exclusion of Indian Tribal Leases in the Uintah and Ouray Reservation from Valuation under 30 CFR 206.172]]> - For gas produced from Indian tribal leases on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation (Reservation) in Utah, the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) is terminating the exclusion from valuation under the regulations at 30 CFR 206.172, based on a request by the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation. http://www.onrr.gov/Laws_R_D/FRNotices/PDFDocs/30430.pdf ONRR Information Tuesday,June 1 2010 Major Portion Prices and Due Date for Additional Royalty Payments on Indian Gas production in Designated Areas Not Associated with and index Zone]]> - Notice of major portion prices for calendar year 2008. Final regulations for valuing gas produced from Indian leases, published August 10, 1999, require ONRR to determine major portion prices and notify industry by publishing the prices in the Federal Register. http://www.onrr.gov/Laws_R_D/FRNotices/PDFDocs/22159.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR Information Tuesday, June 1 2010 The Department of the Interior's Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) disbursed more than $10.68 billion in Fiscal Year 2009 from revenues collected from energy and mineral production on Federal and American Indian lands, including energy and mineral production on the Federal Outer Continental Shelf.
Denver, CO]]> - Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and their eligible political subdivisions, will receive additional funds totaling $2.7 million under the 2006 Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA). http://www.onrr.gov/about/PDFDocs/20091106.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR Information Tuesday, November 17 2009 ONRR issued Dear Reporter Letters to more than 60 oil and gas companies Nov. 6, 2009, providing procedures for those companies to recoup royalty payments made on certain deepwater leases in the Gulf of Mexico. http://www.onrr.gov/FM/PDFDocs/20091106.pdf http://www.onrr.gov/Images/icons/adobe_pdf.gif ONRR Information Friday, November 6 2009