New info requested for fall lease sales

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas has put out a call for new information for its 2014 fall oil and gas lease sales — the Beaufort Sea, North Slope and North Slope Foothills areawide sales.

The March 21 call says the division is requesting “substantial new information concerning these areas that has become available over the past year.” Based on information which it receives, the division will issue supplements to final best interest findings for the sale areas or decisions of no substantive new information.

The most recent BIFs for the North Slope and Beaufort Sea areawide sales were issued in 2008 and 2009, respectively; the latest supplement to those findings was issued in July 2011. The most recent BIF for the North Slope Foothills was issued in 2011. The findings and supplements are available on the division’s website at http://dog.dnr.alaska.gov/Leasing/BestInterestFindings.htm.

The deadline for receipt of new information is 5 p.m. April 21.

—Petroleum News