OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF OIL AND GAS LEASING HISTORY

                   (Quarterly as of 12/31/92)

 
                  Alaska  Atlantic       GOM  Pacific     Total

Sales held            17        10        69       11       107

Blocks offered    24,659     9,160   139,591    1,887   175,297

Leases Issued     1,562*       410     11,106**   470    13,488

Active Leases        534        53     5,587       94     6,268

Acres leased (mil.)
   (Active)        2.89*      0.30     28.60     0.48     32.27

Wells drilled         79        51    29,645    1,048    30,823

 
*    Does not include 16 tracts in the Beaufort Sea (Sale 97)
within areas subject to conflicting jurisdictional claims or
disputes.  Bids were determined to be adequate but will not be
accepted or rejected until the United States determines that it is
in its best interests to do so.

**   Includes 394 Section 6 leases and 13 Section 8 leases added
through segregation.



Subject: PR-02/03/93 Lsng History/OCS Oil & Gas Leasing History
(#30005)