EnerGeo Alliance is the global trade association for the energy geoscience and exploration industry. Our membership includes onshore and offshore survey operators and acquisition companies, data and processing providers, exploration and production companies, geophysical equipment and software manufacturers, industry suppliers, geoscience consultants, and health, safety and environmental service providers.
EnerGeo Alliance optimizes the business and regulatory climate and enhances public understanding to support a strong, viable geophysical industry essential to discovering and delivering the world’s energy resources. It is considered the most credible and effective voice for promoting and ensuring a safe, environmentally responsible, and competitive energy geoscience and exploration industry.
EnerGeo Alliance supports and fosters science- and risk-based regulations consistent with existing practices that are proven to be environmentally responsible, effective, and operationally feasible.
2021 – Geoscience industry identifies mathematical errors in current ITR permitting process, NMFS begins process to reevaluate and correct errors
2024 – NMFS amends the ITR, ultimately making few changes in what was one of many delays that contributed to the steady decline of geoscience surveys in the GOA since 2014
2024 – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service publishes a rule to revise ITR of polar bears and Pacific walruses on and around the North Slope of Alaska
2024 – At least one petition for MMPA authorization has stalled for more than two years, preventing updated insight into the resource potential on Alaska’s North Slope
