Datasets / Number of Drilling Permits Approved by Fiscal Year on Federal Lands by BLM


Number of Drilling Permits Approved by Fiscal Year on Federal Lands by BLM

Published By Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior

Issued almost 10 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
ongoing release of a series of related datasets

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

This table contains the total number of Applications for Permit to Drill (APDs) by state approved by the BLM each fiscal year. Oil and gas operators may not begin drilling activities on a lease without an approved APD. Note that a single lease may have multiple APDs approved and each well pad may have one or more APDs.