US Federal Offshore Lease Guide

Discover Gulf of Mexico oil and gas prospects with custom maps

Are you missing prospect opportunities by using limited lease activity data?

Access this easy-to-use mapping and reporting tool for visualizing US drilling potential in the Gulf of Mexico. Updated quarterly, the offshore lease guide lets you:

Detect opportunities and monitor competition
Sharpen bidding for divested properties
Identify acquisition/divestiture opportunities
Monitor competitor's lease revenue
Submit divested properties bids before competition can respond
Verify royalty interests
Quickly assess and map new interest areas
Present comprehensive analysis to management, stockholders and investors

Data

Maps

Onshore blocks
Offshore blocks

Leases

Participants/operators (current and historical summaries)
Prices paid for ownership or bids
Outlines and status
Annual production reports by lease and company
Well locations and status (producing, non-producing and inactive)
Platforms
Planned structures
Federal and state water leases

Transportation, Delivery and Geology

Pipelines (existing and planned)
Ports
Pricing hubs
Bathymetry

Features

Query, Map & Display
Find, label and present data from wide-area view to lease-level details; create and print scalable maps (BMP format)

Measure
Measure distance and analyze spatial relationship between two or more data points

Report
Produce detailed reports based on selected criteria

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