Chris oynes biography

The man in charge of gas and oil drilling for the Minerals Management Service, Chris Oynes, has announced he'll retire at the end of the month, according the Washington Post. Oynes was promoted to Associate Director for Offshore Energy and Minerals Management with the Interior Department in 2007, despite being embroiled in a controversy over the friendly terms he signed for companies who leased land in the Gulf. That appointment was plenty controversial. Representative Carolyn Maloney, at the time:

It is completely ridiculous that MMS would take the person most likely responsible for the royalty rip-off and put him in charge of the whole show.

This is just one more in a long line of actions showing that MMS sides with Big Oil over the American taxpayers. If it isn't the revolving door that brings oil and gas industry folks positions of power at MMS, then it’s the promotion of an insider responsible for one of the government’s costliest

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Chris Oynes

American lawyer and federal government administrator

Chris Craig Oynes (28 April 1947 – 18 October 2017) was an American lawyer and federal government administrator.^[1][2]

Oynes was born in Anaheim, California to Christian and Lorraine Oynes.^[1][2] Oynes received a BA degree in political science from California State University, Fullerton, and he received a JD degree from George Washington University.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Oynes served as U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) associate director for offshore energy and minerals management before he retired in May 2010. During the 1990s, Oynes served as Deputy Regional Director of the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Region, and he was named Regional Director of that office in 1995.^[7] Oynes who oversaw oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico^[8] for 13 years^[7] before being pr

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Resources on the Outer Continental Shelf

STATEMENT OF

CHRIS OYNES

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, OFFSHORE ENERGY AND MINERALS MANGEMENT

MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE

U.S.DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES

SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 17, 2009

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear here today to discuss the Minerals Management Service's (MMS) role in promoting environmentally responsible energy and mineral development on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The Department of the Interior (Department) and its agencies, including the MMS, are public stewards for much of our nation's energy resources; about 1/3 of the nation's domestic oil and gas production comes from Federal resources managed by the Department. The MMS's responsibilities, as defined by the OCS Lands Act, extend over about 1.7 billion acres of the Federal OCS and range f