Sale dates set for Cook Inlet, Foothills

May 24 has been set as the proposed sale date for the state’s 2006 Cook Inlet and North Slope Foothills areawide sales.

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas is requesting new information which has become available since its most recent findings for the sale areas were written.

The call for new information opens Jan. 23 and closes Feb. 22.

The division said that based on information received it will determine whether there is “substantial new information” which justifies supplements to the existing best interest findings.

All available state acreage in the areas would be offered.

The final best interest findings and their supplements are available on the division’s Web site: www.dog.dnr.state.ak.us.

—Petroleum News