specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement
providerId: bureau-of-safety-and-environmental-enforcement
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-05'
generated: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://www.bsee.gov/who-we-are/working-with-us/doing-business-with-bsee/fees-for-services
  and https://www.data.bsee.gov/Other/PIOrderingSystem/Default.aspx
tags:
  - Enforcement
  - Environment
  - Federal Government
  - Safety
  - Offshore
  - Oil and Gas
  - Wells
description: >-
  BSEE publishes NO tiered plans for data access. The BSEE Data Center — every online
  query and every bulk raw-data download — is free and requires no account. There is
  therefore no free/pro/enterprise ladder, no quota, and no overage.

  What BSEE does publish is a statutory cost-recovery fee schedule under 30 CFR 250.125
  for filing regulated applications through the eWell / TIMS permitting system. Those are
  regulatory filing fees paid by offshore operators, not charges for API or data access,
  and they are recorded below as `fee_schedule` rather than as plans so they are never
  mistaken for API pricing.

  This file replaces a 2026-05-04 bulk-sweep scaffold that asserted Free / Professional /
  Enterprise tiers with invented request quotas (1,000 and 100,000 requests per month) and
  invented rate limits. None of that existed. Removed 2026-09-05.
plan_count: 0
plans: []
free_access:
  available: true
  account_required: false
  price: '0.00'
  currency: USD
  covers:
    - BSEE Data Center online queries (well, lease, pipeline, platform, production, company, plans)
    - Bulk raw-data downloads (zipped delimited ASCII)
    - Mapping shapefiles and ArcGIS geodatabase downloads
  source: https://www.data.bsee.gov/Main/RawData.aspx
fee_schedule:
  applies_to: BSEE eWell Permitting System (TIMS)
  basis: 30 CFR 250.125 cost-recovery fees
  currency: USD
  source: https://www.bsee.gov/who-we-are/working-with-us/doing-business-with-bsee/fees-for-services
  note: >-
    Regulatory filing fees charged to offshore operators for processing applications.
    Not a data-access or API charge. Amounts quoted verbatim from the BSEE page on
    2026-09-05; BSEE revises them periodically, so treat the page as authoritative.
  fees:
    - service: Appeal
      price: '150'
    - service: Open access complaint
      price: '7500'
    - service: Application for permit to drill (APD)
      price: '2458'
    - service: Application for permit to modify (APM)
      price: '145'
    - service: Pipeline right-of-way grant application
      price: '3223'
    - service: Pipeline right-of-way grant assignment
      price: '234'
    - service: Pipeline application modification - ROW
      price: '4849'
    - service: Pipeline conversion of lease term to ROW
      price: '275'
    - service: New pipeline application - lease term
      price: '4119'
    - service: Pipeline application modification - lease term
      price: '2392'
    - service: Pipeline repair notification
      price: '451'
    - service: Application to relinquish a ROW and decommission pipeline
      price: '2524'
    - service: Application to decommission a pipeline - lease term
      price: '1328'
    - service: Suspension of operations / suspension of production
      price: '2469'
    - service: 500 feet from lease or unit line production request
      price: '4527'
    - service: Gas cap production request
      price: '5761'
    - service: Downhole commingling request
      price: '6722'
    - service: Voluntary unitization proposal or unit expansion
      price: '14678'
    - service: Unitization revision
      price: '1042'
    - service: Platform application - installation under platform verification program
      price: '26444'
    - service: Platform application - fixed structure
      price: '3787'
    - service: Platform application - caisson well protector
      price: '1927'
    - service: Platform application - modification
      price: '4518'
    - service: Application to remove a platform
      price: '5448'
paid_document_ordering:
  system: Public Information Ordering System (PIOS)
  url: https://www.data.bsee.gov/Other/PIOrderingSystem/Default.aspx
  account_required: true
  identity_provider: Login.gov
  note: >-
    Items sold by BSEE Public Information can be purchased through an SSL credit-card
    system. BSEE states educational institutions and students may receive a discount on
    some items. No per-item price list is published on the public page, so no prices are
    recorded here.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com