There is more to it than that isn't there? Did they not also levy a much higher fee for the leases and the ongoing residual costs as well? There was also a big stink about "procedural errors" that took a large number of leases out of possible use over some bullshit GIGO crap they had going on.
There are increased royalty fees being proposed, though that would be all post federal-land-lease-pause; current leases have been "stocked up" for a while (last I read at least, not sure if something has changed in the past 2 months or so). IIRC, I saw a proposed rate ~18% (around 13% historically).
I know the BLM came under fire about procedural delays during COVID but I don't think that's an issue currently. Having had to deal with a dozen state agencies the past 12-14 months, I've got my own delays to deal with lol...
The 41 billion is a bit disingenuous when you factor in previous near term losses. I believe it was reported earlier in this thread that the net to date is running about 8% positive which is clearly not what the 41B shows.
The top 5 O&G companies (TE, Exxon, Shell, Chevron, and BP) lost $76,000,000,000 in 2020. It's important to note that the majority of the "losses" realized in 2020 (about $69B) were attributed to asset impairments and write-offs (usually from tax deferral, asset depreciation or abandonment), so not a loss in cash flow in the typical sense (oddly enough, it was the CARES Act that allowed them an extension on these carry back losses - though the O&G execs are quite notably quiet on that topic).
In 2021, the same top 5 O&G companies made $113,000,000,000 in profits (the top 28 O&G producers made ~$184,000,000,000 profit, so you can see the market share of the top 5). In 2021, O&G also boosted stock buybacks by ~2100% in Q4 alone.
We should also not forget that 77 US based energy-sector companies (crude producers, refiners, etc) took $8,200,000,000 in CARES Act money, despite cutting 60,000 jobs during 2020.
My sympathies for major corporations, especially O&G, who spent decades buying back stocks, tightening work forces, and generally turning capitalism into corporatism is very, very low