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Many small oil and gas companies have been struggling with the low prices over the past two months and some have called for royalty relief to help them with costs as oil crashed to four-year lows. The U.S. Administration has dismissed the idea of an overall blanket royalty rate reduction on federal land and offshore, but it has said that it would consider applications for two-month royalty rate cuts on a case-by-case basis.
