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Oil & Gas Royalty In Kind
Related Resources (government documents and letters)
POGO Files
Testimony of POGO's Danielle Brian before the House Committee on Natural Resources regarding "The Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2009"
September 17, 2009
POGO's Comment on Salazar Ending RIK
September 16, 2009
POGO Supports Legislation to Reform MMS
September 25, 2008
POGO Supports Reform of MMS and the RIK Program (S. 3543 ) - Hopes to Restore Ethical Conduct and Accountability to the Resource Management
September 24, 2008
Drilling the Taxpayer: Department of Interior's Royalty-In-Kind Program In its fifth report since 1995 about oil and gas royalties, POGO examines the mismanagement and corruption in the Department of the Interior's Royalty-In-Kind program. The report tracks how industry's influence on the RIK program has been pervasive, and can be traced from the program's inception through its expansion into the full-blown program that exists today. In the face of these numerous problems, POGO now demands the program be abolished.
September 18, 2008
POGO’s public comment opposing the Department of Interior’s proposed amendments to the oil valuation rule for being a giveaway to the oil industry
November 10, 2003
Statement of Danielle Brian, POGO's Executive Director Minerals Management Service Workshop on Oil Valuation Regulations
March 6, 2003
POGO Slams Bush Administration for Reopening Oil Rule
March 5, 2003
GAO: Interior Can't Tell Whether It is Losing Taxpayer Money
January 16, 2003
POGO's Counter Response to "MMS's Response to POGO letter to Energy Bill Conferees"
September 6, 2002
Taxpayer, Environmental and Union Groups Support Amendment to Ensure Oil Companies Pay Fair Share
June 21, 2001
Should Oil and Gas Companies Be Trusted to Pay Royalties In Kind?
February 8, 2001
Public Interest Groups Oppose Oil & Gas Royalties In Kind Amendment
September 20, 2000
Wait! There Is More Money to Collect...Unpaid Oil Royalties Across the Nation POGO's initial 2 reports revealed the federal government's failure to collect royalties from oil companies that drill on public lands in California. This report shows evidence that the federal government's failure to adequately collect oil royalties is nationwide – involving at least 13 States, 3 Native American Nations and numerous private landowners.
January 1, 1996
Related Resources
Royalty-In-Kind Program: MMS Does Not Provide Reasonable Assurance It Receives Its Share of Gas, Resulting in Millions in Forgone Revenue
, Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report GAO-09-744
August 31, 2009
Mineral Revenues: MMS Could Do More to Improve the Accuracy of Key Data Used to Collect and Verify Oil and Gas Royalties
, Government Accountability Office (GAO) GAO-08-549
July 31, 2009
MMS Response to POGO letter to Energy Bill Conferees
, Minerals Management Service (MMS)
August 1, 2002
Statement by Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney commenting on the most recent RIK pilot program
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Representative Maloney's Press Releases
June 12, 2001
Statement of Brian McMahon for the State of California on RIK prices
Brian McMahon,
June 12, 2001
What the GAO says about Royalty in Kind
, Government Accountability Office
August 1, 1998
Federal Oil Valuation; Efforts to Revise Regulations and an Analysis of Royalties In Kind
, General Accounting Office (GA0) Report GAO/RCED-98-242
August 1, 1998
POGO in the News
Interior launches ethics program, By Katherine McIntire Peters, Government Executive Magazine, September 24, 2009
No More Sex and Drugs in the Interior Department, By Lydia DePillis, The New Republic, September 18, 2009
Salazar buries the RIK program, By Gregg Carlstrom, Federal Times, September 16, 2009
Interior to Eliminate Royalty-In-Kind Program, By Noelle Straub and Ben Geman, The New York Times, September 16, 2009
Scandal-Plagued Oil Agency Revamping Itself, By Derek Kravitz, Washington Post Investigations, October 20, 2008
Drilling Would Help No One But Mismanaged Oil Industry, By Steve Colby, Huffington Post, October 3, 2008
MMS scandal spawns call for jail time, huge fines, By Derek Sands, Inside Energy, September 22, 2008
Auditors assail improper relationship between Interior, oil industry, By Gregg Carlstrom, Federal Times, September 21, 2008
Second Interior Official Pleads Guilty in Sex, Drugs and Oil Scandal, By Sharron Coutts, ProPublica, September 18, 2008
US government oversight group calls on MMS to abandon RIK program, By Derek Sands, Platts , September 17, 2008
Lakewood oil scandal overlooked, By Anne C. Mulkern, The Denver Post, September 17, 2008
GAO Auditors Question Interior's Collection of Energy Royalties, By Stephen Power, Wall Street Journal, September 17, 2008
Congress to investigate oil and gas royalty collections, By Katherine McIntire Peters, Government Executive, September 16, 2008
Inside the Beltway, By John McCaslin, The Washington Times, September 12, 2008
Sex Scandal At Federal Agency Is Not New, By Jeff Brady , NPR: All Things Considered, September 11, 2008
Oil-and-Sex Scandal Spawns Criticism, Hill Hearing, By Derek Kravitz, Washington Post Investigations, September 11, 2008
Sex, Drugs, and Offshore Drilling, By James Ridgeway, MoJo Blog, September 11, 2008
Uncle Sam is happy to get paid in crude, By David Ivanovich, Houston Chronicle, October 7, 2006
