• Lobbied House and Senate on offshore and onshore federal leasing for oil and gas, federal leasing ban, leasing fees and related, OCS 5-year plan, Nat. Res items in Biden Budget, IRA, and permitting reform bills; Input appropriations requests for R&D funding for cobalt extraction in Cook Islands by US o/g companies;
• Potential changes to tax code affecting natural gas and oil companies and drilling contractors found in Made in America Tax Plan, the Admin's FY2022 budget request and the CLEAN Energy for America Act, and Budget Reconciliation Package. BBB rounds #1 and #2.
• Advocated in support of the Natural Gas Export Expansion Act, general advocacy promoting U.S. LNG exports. General advocacy on legislation related to profits and price-gouging of fuel commodities.
• Lobbied Senate Commerce and House T&I, House Nat. Res, on provisions affecting oil and gas industry in Coast Guard reauthorization bill regarding crewing and manning requirements (flagging) for offshore vessels; Don Young Coast Guard Reauthorization Act; NDAA related package of Coast Guard reauthorization
• Appropriations requests and advocacy for R&D funding for US companies to develop seabed cobalt reserves in the Cook Islands. Advocating support for critical minerals legislation that promotes continued resource development.
• Lobbied House Republicans and Democrats on supporting H2-B visa reform that would create explicit immigration goals for the intake of energy-focused specialty workers.
• Lobbied Senate Commerce Committee on Coast Guard related legislation that would affect offshore oil industry labor force.

Duration: November 1, 2007 to June 24, 2020

General Issues: Natural Resources, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Fuel/Gas/Oil, Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries, Budget/Appropriations, Immigration, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Energy/Nuclear

Spending: about $0 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2007: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Interior - Dept of (DOI), State - Dept of (DOS), Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Energy - Dept of, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, Labor - Dept of (DOL), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)