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Oil & Gas Royalties
Related Resources (government documents and letters)
POGO Files
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 Royalties-In-Kind Report: Drilling The Taxpayer
September 17, 2008
POGO: DOI’s Minerals Management Service Wins “Worst Misconduct Abuse” Award
September 10, 2008
Taxpayers Could Lose $53 Billion From Oil Leases
May 28, 2008
Court Finds POGO Acted in “Good Faith”
April 11, 2008
Congress Turns Its Attention to Royalty Collection
March 10, 2008
Letter to House Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and related Agencies Appropriations regarding accountability for royalty collections
February 8, 2008
Oil Companies Billed $66 Million In Late Interest Payments
October 2, 2007
POGO Supports Accountability and Honest Provisions in Energy Bill along with Taxpayers for Common Sense and Friends of the Earth
August 1, 2007
POGO Cheers MMS Director’s Resignation
May 8, 2007
POGO Disgusted by DOI’s ‘Honor System’ for Big Oil Companies
January 18, 2007
Interior Dept. Officials Told Auditor Not to Bill Oil Company; Jury Trial Scheduled in False Claims Act Case
November 17, 2006
Written Statement of POGO's Beth Daley to the Royalty Policy Committee
November 14, 2006
POGO Finds Steep Drop in Royalties Collected by MMS
September 14, 2006
POGO's Written Testimony for the House Government Reform Committee regarding the Interior Department: A Culture of Managerial Irresponsibility and Lack of Accountability?
September 14, 2006
Statement of POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian on finalization of the Department of Interior's Oil Valuation Rule
March 14, 2000
Letter From Coalition Of 24 Organizations: to David Guzy, Chief, Rules & Regulations Staff, Royalty Management Program, MMS
January 31, 2000
POGO Letter - to David Guzy, Chief, Rules & Regulations Staff, Royalty Management Program, Minerals Management Services
January 31, 2000
Public Wins--Big Oil Loses on Oil Royalty Issue
November 16, 1999
Sen. Hutchison Says Oil is "on its knees" But Royalty-Evaders Make $9.2 Billion Profits in 1st Half of 1999
September 20, 1999
Effects of the Moratorium on Implementation of Oil Royalty Rule
September 1, 1999
New Evidence of Royalty Rip-Offs Mounts...But Big Oil Presses Ahead on Senate Bail-Out Scheme
July 22, 1999
Oil State Senators Push $200 Million Giveaway to Big Oil
July 15, 1999
Statement On The Eight-Month Delay In The Oil Royalty Rule
October 15, 1998
States and Indian Nations Say "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" - Let Interior Issue Its Oil Royalty Rule
July 9, 1998
Stop The Royalty Rip-Off!
July 7, 1998
Written Submission for the Record
June 17, 1996
Related Resources
Investigative Report: Federal Business Solutions Contracts
Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of the Interior
September 4, 2008
Investigative Report: MMS Oil Marketing Group - Lakewood
Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Interior
August 19, 2008
Investigative Report: Gregory W. Smith
Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Interior
August 7, 2008
Royalty-In-Kind Oil Sales Process
Report No. C-EV-MMS-0001-2008, U.S. Department of the Interior Office of the Inspector General
May 30, 2008
CRS: Outer Continental Shelf: Debate Over Oil and Gas Leasing and Revenue Sharing
By Marc Humphries, Congressional Research Service CRS Report RL 33493
January 22, 2008
Minerals Management Service: False Claims Act Allegations
Earl E. Devaney, Inspector General, United States Department of the Interior
September 17, 2007
Taking a swipe at big oil
By Anderson Cooper, CNN.com
January 18, 2007
Effects of Royalty Incentives for Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Leases; Note to Reviewers
, Department of Interior
January 1, 2007
Effects of Royalty Incentives for Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Leases; Volume II: Technical Report
, Department of Interior
January 1, 2007
Effects of Royalty Incentives for Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Leases; Volume I: Summary
, Department of Interior
January 1, 2007
Members of Congress question Interior Department's retaliation against state and tribal oil/gas auditors
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August 31, 2006
States and Tribes Demand Answers on Royalty Oversight, letter to the Department of the Interior
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February 2, 2006
Department of Interior's second response to Chairman Pombo's request for information
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February 2, 2006
Energy Royalties Ripoff
, Boston Globe
January 30, 2006
Senators Ask GAO to Examine Oil and Gas Royalty Collections
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January 24, 2006
Department of Interior's response to Chairman Pombo
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January 24, 2006
House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo Requests Data on Gas Royalties
By Richard Pombo,
January 23, 2006
CRS: Outer Continental Shelf: Debate Over Oil and Gas Leasing and Revenue Sharing
Marc Humphries, Congressional Research Service - CRS Report IB10149
October 27, 2005
CBO: Reforming the Federal Royalty Program for Oil and Gas
, Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
November 1, 2000
CRS: Outer Continental Shelf: Oil and Gas Leasing and Revenue
By Lawrence Kumins, Congressional Research Service - CRS
May 3, 2000
Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service website
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January 1, 1998
POGO in the News
Oil companies gave sex, drinks, gifts to federal overseers, By Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers, September 10, 2008
Sex for Oil? Reports Blast Interior Dept., By Lisa Stark, Theresa Cook, Kate Barrett, Jason Ryan and Jack Date, ABC World News with Charles Gibson, September 10, 2008
Scandal at Interior Department involving oil companies, By Tom Costello, NBC News: Nightly News, September 10, 2008
Sex, drugs and oil: corruption scandal rocks US agency, , Agence France Press, September 10, 2008
How to Fix It: Stop Leasing Public Lands at Fire-Sale Prices, By James Ridgeway, Mother Jones, September 1, 2008
Taxpayer Watchdog: President Should Appoint MMS Director, , Natural Gas Intelligence, March 17, 2008
DOI officials dispute calls to change royalties program, By Nick Snow, Penn Energy Oil & Gas Research, March 12, 2008
Watchdog Group: MMS Director Should be Presidential Appointee, , NGI's Daily Gas Price Index, March 11, 2008
Justice Pounds a Watchdog, By Shawn Zeller, CQ Weekly, February 24, 2008
POGO loses suit over payment to whistleblower, by Gregg Leslie, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Blog, February 12, 2008
Interior Seeks Repeal of Offshore Royalty Relief in FY '09 Budget, , Natural Gas Intelligence, February 11, 2008
Groups Press for More Interior Oil, Gas Auditors, NGI's Daily Gas Price Index, , Intelligence Press, February 8, 2008
Steward to head royalty-in-kind program at MMS; ran agency records projects, By Jean Chemnick, Inside Energy, January 21, 2008
Interior Department unveils new ethics plan, by Anika Gupta, GovExec.com, July 6, 2007
Watchdog Group: Burton Exit First Step Toward Systemic Reform of MMS, , National Gas Intelligence, May 14, 2007
The Royalty Treatment, , NOW by PBS, May 11, 2007
Controversial Head of Interior's minerals agency resigns, By Tim Kauffman, Federal Times, May 8, 2007
Democrats Taking Closer Look at Agency Oversight of Oil, Gas Leases, By Jean Chemnick, Politico, April 17, 2007
Senators Seek Way to Mend Faulty Oil and Gas Contracts, By Jean Chemnick, Politico, March 27, 2007
Lubrigate: Oil Company Cheated U.S. out of Millions, By Justin Rood, TPMMuckraker.com, January 24, 2007
Letting oil companies say 'Trust us', By Ashley Milne-Tyte , Marketplace, January 15, 2007
Study Suggests Incentives on Oil Barely Help U.S., By Edmund L. Andrews, New York Times, December 22, 2006
A billion here, a billion there, By Edward T. Pound, U.S. News and World Report , December 10, 2006
Report: Oil Royalty Program Ineffective, By Ian Talley, Houston Chronicle, December 6, 2006
Blowing the Whistle on Big Oil, By Edmund L. Andrews, The New York Times, December 3, 2006
Panel to analyze royalties system, By David Ivanovich, Houston Chronicle, November 15, 2006
Black Gold: Offshore oil and gas drilling has the potential to boost the economy or spoil the environment, or maybe both, By Katherine McIntire Peters, GovExec, November 1, 2006
Oil giant tries to shirk royalty payments to Indians, By Michelle Chen, The NewStandard, October 11, 2006
Now, oil-rich leaders mock Bush team, By Jay Bookman, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 25, 2006
Department of Billion-dollar Bungling, By Douglas Waller, Time, September 16, 2006
Crude Awakening, , PBS NOW Show, June 16, 2006
Firms Harvesting Energy From Public Land May Owe U.S.; Under the False Claims Act, Groups Sue for More Fees , By T. R. Reid, Washington Post, May 7, 2006
Oil and Gas Companies Shortchanging Taxpayers by Hundreds of Millions of Dollars - Where is Congress?, , Press Release from Members of Congress, January 23, 2006
As Profits Soar, Companies Pay U.S. Less for Gas Rights , By Edmund L. Andrews, New York Times, January 23, 2006
Making them pay: How big oil companies shortchange taxpayers on royalties, By Jim Morris, U.S. News and World Report, May 14, 2001
More public drilling? Let's collect bills first, , USA Today, April 6, 2001
