Call for new info for O&G lease sales

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas, published a call for new information for the 2018 Cook Inlet and Alaska Peninsula areawide lease sales Sept. 15. Information is due Oct. 20.

The division said the sales are tentatively scheduled for spring 2018.

The Cook Inlet areawide lease sale encompasses some 4.2 million gross acres, 815 tracts ranging in size from 640 to 5,760 acres, within the Matanuska-Susitna, Anchorage and Kenai boroughs. The Alaska Peninsula areawide includes some 4 million gross acres, 1,047 tracts ranging in size from 640 to 5,760 acres, within the Lake and Peninsula Borough, Bristol Bay Borough, Aleutians East Borough and the Dillingham Census Area.

The division said land estate on the tracts may be owned by the state, a municipality or a private entity, and only those tracts in which the mineral estate is free and unencumbered are included in any issued lease.

The most recent best interest findings for those sales were issued in 2009 for Cook Inlet and in 2014 for the Alaska Peninsula. The latest supplement for the Cook Inlet finding was issued in 2011. Findings and supplement are at available on the division’s website at: https://dog.dnr.alaska.gov//

The division is looking for substantial new information, which it said is generally considered to be published research studies or data directly related to matters in Alaska Statutes 38.05.035(g). The call for new information on the division’s website specifies the type of information requested.

- Petroleum News