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The NewsRoom
Release: #3537
Date: July 17, 2006
MMS Issues Final Notice of Western Gulf Lease
Sale 200
NEW ORLEANS – The
Minerals Management Service (MMS) announced today in the
Federal Register the Final Notice of Lease Sale 200 for offshore
oil and gas in the Western Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The lease sale is
scheduled for August 16, 2006, in New Orleans. Bid reading will
begin at 9:00 a.m. in the Acadia Ballroom of the Marriott Hotel at
555 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.
The lease sale encompasses
3,865 unleased blocks of approximately 20.87 million acres in the
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Planning Area offshore Texas and in
deeper waters offshore Louisiana. The blocks are located from three
to about 210 miles offshore in water depths of eight to more than
3,000 meters. MMS estimates the lease sale could result in the
production of between 136 and 262 million barrels of oil and 0.810
to 1.440 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
Bidders
are advised that if the Draft Proposed Oil and Gas Leasing Program
for 2007-2012 is implemented in July 2007, as currently formulated,
then certain blocks that are in the Garden Banks, Keathley Canyon,
and Sigsbee Escarpment map areas will transfer from the Western GOM
planning area to the Central GOM planning area. In association with
this transfer, Western GOM Sale 200 is expected to be the last
Western GOM sale to contain these blocks. After Sale 200, all
transferred unleased blocks will not be available for lease again
until the Central GOM Sale tentatively planned for March 2008.
The
Final Notice of Lease
Sale 200 will be posted on the MMS website. In addition, copies of the document are
available from the MMS Gulf of Mexico Regional Office, Public
Information Unit, 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans,
Louisiana 70123. Telephone (504) 736-2519, toll free 1-800-200-GULF.
Relevant Web Sites:
MMS Main Website
Gulf of Mexico Website
Federal Register Online via GPO Access
Media Contact:
Debra Winbush (504)
736-2597
Caryl Fagot
(504) 736-2590
MMS: Securing Ocean Energy & Economic Value for America
U.S. Department of the Interior
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