BLM posts NPR-A maps for upcoming sale - April 11, 2010

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryApril 2010

Vol. 15, No. 15

Week of April 11, 2010

BLM posts NPR-A maps for upcoming sale

The Bureau of Land Management in Alaska said April 2 that it has posted online maps detailing proposed oil and gas lease sale tracts in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to be offered at its Aug. 11 lease sale in Anchorage.

BLM said proposed tract maps show 414 tracts, some 4,211,926 acres, with 269 tracts (2,513,750 acres) in Northeast NPR-A and 145 tracts (1,698,176 acres) in Northwest NPR-A.

BLM said there are currently 310 oil and gas leases, 3,026,633 acres, in the Northeast and Northwest planning areas.

The proposed lease maps can be found at BLM Alaska’s home page at www.blm.gov/ak under “In the Spotlight.”

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