The U.S. Department of the Interior sent a statement after Rigzone asked if its five-year program for leasing in the Gulf of Mexico would lapse. The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) is actively developing its five-year program for leasing in the Gulf of Mexico, a DOI spokesperson has outlined in a statement sent to Rigzone. “In the meantime, of the more than 11 million acres of offshore federal waters already under lease, more than three-quarters (75.58 percent or 8.29 million acres) are non-producing,” the spokesperson added in the statement. The DOI sent its statement after Rigzone asked if the DOI’s five-year program for leasing in the Gulf of Mexico would lapse. Rigzone also asked the DOI if the next five-year offshore leasing program was behind schedule, but the DOI did not make reference to the question in its response. Earlier this week, in a statement posted on its […]