Absolutely...the federal government OWNS all the rights to any water more than 3 miles off shore, with the exception of Texas. Because we were a country when we entered the US, we kept our rights to the tidelands up to 12 miles from our shores. That's why most of our drilling platforms are pumping TEXAS oil, not US oil. Our feckless government will sink the millions of gas-consumers and wreck our economy for the sake of a few hundred wacko enviro-nazis when they could be drilling right now off CA and FLA, as we've been doing for 75 years off the Texas coast. The states that refuse to drill have only the right to govern the first 3 miles. They have NO right to say "boo" about the water beyond that point.
It belongs to all the citizens of the USA.
I would propose that those States who have reserves, yet refuse to drill, can simply DO WITHOUT energy produced elsewhere..they would change their enviroWACKED minds real quick..