ICRARD contact in the United States:
Sharon Buffington
Chief, ERB,
Minerals Management Service (MMS)
E-mail: Sharon.Buffington@mms.gov
About the Mineral Management Service
The Minerals Management Service (MMS), a bureau in the U.S. Department of the Interior, is the Federal agency that manages the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf (OCS), conducts safety, environmental and oil spill response research, and operates Ohmsett, the National Oil Spill Response Test Tank Facility.
The agency also collects, accounts for and disburses more than $5 billion per year in revenues from Federal offshore mineral leases and from onshore mineral leases on Federal and Indian lands.
The program is national in scope and headquartered in Washington, D.C. It includes two major programs, Offshore Minerals Management and Minerals Revenue Management.
The Offshore program, which manages the mineral resources on the OCS, comprises three regions: Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific. The Minerals Revenue Management program is headquartered in Washington, D.C., but operationally based in Denver, Colorado.