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Production by Year

This dataset contains information on natural resource production volumes on Native American lands and federal lands and waters. We only provide production volumes for Native American lands by fiscal year.

Scope

The calendar year dataset includes natural resource production for U.S. federal lands and offshore areas. The fiscal year dataset also includes Native American lands (2009-2018). Neither dataset includes privately owned lands or state-owned lands.

Federal production data is available by location, but Native American data is only available at the national level to protect private and personally identifiable information.

The dataset currently include data tracked and managed by the Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR). The production data for Oil and Gas is collected on Form ONRR-4054 (Oil and Gas Operations Report). Coal and hardrock production is collected on Form ONRR-4430 (Solid Minerals Production and Royalty Report).

About the data

Why is geothermal energy listed so many times?

We can only compare production that is reported in the same unit. The standard unit of measurement for geothermal energy in the federal production dataset is kilowatt hours, but there are a few counties that report it differently. We have separate charts for each of these counties, because they report in nonstandard units:

  • Dona Ana County, NM reports direct use of geothermal resources in million gallons
  • Churchill County, NV reports direct use of geothermal resources in hundred gallons
  • Lassen County, CA reports direct use of geothermal resources in million BTUs
  • Lassen County, CA reports geothermal energy generation as other (no unit)
  • Lake County, CA; Sonoma County, CA; and Beaver County, UT report geothermal energy generation in thousand pounds
  • Inyo County, CA reports sulfur from geothermal resources as long tons

A note about “Mixed Exploratory” versus “Federal” categories of production

To build our data visualizations, we've aggregated production from two types of jurisdictions: “federal” and “mixed exploratory.”

  • Federal production is production from federal lands and waters.
  • “Mixed exploratory” is a temporary jurisdictional unit that is used until production is proven on that location. BLM then creates a permanent unit with allocation schedules that may split that area between federal and other ownership. Payors then resubmit royalties based on the new unit allocations. These royalties are retroactive to the first production.

The federal government rarely gets 100% of “mixed exploratory” volumes. You can see these categories disaggregated in the federal production dataset, downloadable on this page.

Why is quartz crystal measured in “tickets/pounds”?

Quartz crystal is sometimes sold in relatively small quantities in gift shops and tourist attractions. In some cases, tourists can buy admission tickets to dig for their own minerals. For those transactions, ONRR may collect royalties on the admission tickets, not on the weight of minerals collected. Furthermore, some minerals are sold by quality, not by weight.

The unit “tickets/pounds” shows quantities measured in both tickets sold and weight sold combined, even though the units measure different things. The royalty amount for ticket transactions often don't meet ONRR's review threshold, so the specific quantities in weight may be unknown.

Data dictionary

Fields and definitions

Year

  • Calendar Year is the period between January 1 and December 31 for a given year.
  • Fiscal year The year the production occurred. The federal fiscal year runs from October 1 of the prior year through September 30 of the year being described. For example, Fiscal Year 2018 is between October 1, 2017, and September 30, 2018.

Land Category

  • Onshore Situated or occurring on land.
  • Offshore Submerged lands located farther than three miles off a state’s coastline, or three marine leagues into the Gulf of Mexico off of Texas and Western Florida.

Land Class

  • Federal Federal lands are owned by or under the jurisdiction of the federal government, including: Public domain lands, acquired lands, military acquired lands, and Outer Continental Shelf.
  • Native American includes Tribal lands held in trust by the federal government for a tribe’s use, and allotments held in trust by the federal government for individual Native American use.
  • Mixed Exploratory is a temporary jurisdictional unit that is used until production is proven on that location (see above).

State The state where the production occurred.

County The county where the production occurred.

FIPS Code Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code is a five-digit code which uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents in the U.S., certain U.S. possessions, and certain freely associated states. The first two digits are the FIPS state code and the last three are the county code within the state or possession.

Offshore Region BOEM separates offshore areas into four regions: Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic, Pacific, and Alaska. For more information on offshore regions, including spatial boundaries, see BOEM's maps and GIS data.

Offshore Planning Area Offshore regions are broken out into planning areas. There are more offshore planning areas than are represented in our data. Those not represented had no production during the time period. For more information on offshore planning areas, including spatial boundaries, see the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's (BOEM) maps and GIS data.

Product Products are listed individually but may also fall into like categories.

  • Anhydrous Sodium Sulfate (tons)
  • Borate Products (tons) include Borax-Anhydrous, Borax-Decahydrate, Borax-Pentahydrate, and Boric Acid
  • Brine Products include Brine Barrels (converted to tons equivalent) and Magnesium Chloride Brine
  • Calcium Chloride (lbs)
  • Carbon Dioxide (tons)
  • Cinders (tons)
  • Clay (tons)
  • Coal (tons)
  • Coal-Bituminous-Raw (tons)
  • Other Coal Products (tons) include Leonardite and Coal Waste (Sub-Econ)
  • Copper (lbs)
  • Copper Concentrate (tons)
  • Drip or Scrubber Condensate
  • Gas (mcf)
  • Geothermal - Direct Utilization, (gal hundreds)
  • Geothermal - Direct Utilization, (MMBtu)
  • Geothermal - Electrical Generation, (kWh)
  • Geothermal - Electrical Generation, (lbs, thousand)
  • Geothermal - Electrical Generation, (Other)
  • Geothermal - Sulfur, (long tons)
  • Gilsonite (tons)
  • Gold and Silver Products (ozs) include: Gold, Gold Placer, and Silver
  • Gold and Silver Products (tons) include: Gold Ore, Gold and Silver
  • Gypsum (tons)
  • Hardrock Products (tons) include: Limestone (tons) and Wavellite (spcmns)
  • Humate (tons)
  • Langbeinite (tons)
  • Lead Concentrate (tons)
  • Leonardite (tons)
  • Molybdenum Concentrate (tons)
  • Muriate Of Potash-Granular (tons)
  • Muriate Of Potash-Standard (tons)
  • Oil (bbls)
  • Phosphate Raw Ore (tons)
  • Potash (tons)
  • Potassium Products (tons) include Manure Salts and Sylvite-Raw Ore
  • Potassium Sulphate-Standard (tons)
  • Purge Liquor (tons)
  • Quartz Crystal (tickets/lbs)
  • Salt (tons)
  • Sand/Gravel (tons)
  • Sand/Gravel-Cubic Yards (cyds)
  • Soda Ash (tons)
  • Sodium Bi-Carbonate (tons)
  • Sodium Products (tons) include Anhydrous Sodium Sulfate, Sodium Bisulfite, Sodium Decahydrate, Sodium Sesquicarbonate, Sulfide, and Trona Ore
  • Zinc Concentrate (tons)

Volume Shows the production volume (amount produced). The units for volume are shown in the preceding field (Product).

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