Call for new info on ANS sales

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas, has issued a call for “substantial new information” which has become available over the past year for state acreage in the Beaufort Sea, North Slope and North Slope Foothills areawide oil and gas lease sales. The sales are tentatively scheduled for the fall, and have in recent years been held on the same day as the federal lease sale in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

Best interest findings are issued each 10 years, with the most recent for the Beaufort Sea in 2009, the North Slope in 2008 and the North Slope Foothills in 2011.

The Beaufort Sea best interest finding was supplemented in 2011; supplements have not been issued for the other areawide findings.

The division said it “generally considers ‘substantial new’ information to be published research, studies, or data directly relevant to matters” in state statute and which have become available over the last year.

The complete call notice is available on the division’s website at http://dog.dnr.alaska.gov. Information is due by May 13.

- Petroleum News