Call for new info for two northern sales

Petroleum News

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas, has issued a call for new information for the Beaufort Sea and North Slope areawide oil and gas lease sales.

These sales, along with the North Slope Foothills areawide, have typically been held late in the year, and the division said they are tentatively schedule for the second half of this year.

The division is requesting any substantial new information that has become available over the last year for the Beaufort Sea and North Slope areawide sale areas; substantial new information must be received by 5 p.m. May 14 to be considered.

Best interest findings were most recently issued in 2019 for the Beaufort Sea areawide and in 2018 for the North Slope areawide. The division said no supplements have been issued.

Based on information received, the division said it would either issue supplements to best interest findings for the sale areas, or decisions of no substantial new information.

The division is not requesting substantial new information for the North Slope Foothills sale area because a preliminary best interest finding was issued in February and public comments are being accepted through April 26.

- Petroleum News