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Offshore Downhole Commingling Regulatory Updates
The Safety and Environmental Enforcement Bureau published this final rule in the Federal Register on August 13, 2025. It took effect on October 14, 2025. Comments closed on September 12, 2025.
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What the agency says
The Department of the Interior (DOI or Department), through the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), is revising the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) downhole commingling regulations consistent with the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBB). These administrative revisions update the regulations to ensure consistency with the OBBB when BSEE reviews a request for downhole commingling.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-15327
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Direct final rule (DFR); request for comments
- Agency
- Interior Department; Safety and Environmental Enforcement Bureau
- Published
- August 13, 2025
- Takes effect
- October 14, 2025
- Comments due
- September 12, 2025
- Dates
- The final rule is effective October 14, 2025, unless significant adverse comments are received by September 12, 2025. If significant adverse comments are received, the Department will publish notice in the Federal Register before the effective date either withdrawing the rule or issuing a new final rule that responds to significant adverse comments.
- Docket
- Docket ID: BSEE-2025-0134; EEEE500000 256E1700D2 ET1SF0000.EAQ000
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 1014-AA68
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 30 CFR 250
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Continental shelf; Environmental impact statements; Environmental protection; Government contracts; Investigations; Mineral resources; Oil and gas exploration; Penalties; Pipelines; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
- Pages
- 4
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