WASHINGTON— The Interior Department is scheduled to auction off more than 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday for oil and gas leasing, the largest U.S. lease sale ever. The sale comes ...

WASHINGTON— The Biden administration has cancelled a March 17 oil and gas lease sale that would have auctioned off over 78 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management ...

A bar chart showing the number of acres and count of leases for oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico, broken down by active versus producing leases. Active acreage and lease counts drastically outpace ...