Call for new O&G lease sale information

Petroleum News

The Alaska Division of Oil and Gas has a call out for new information for the 2022 Cook Inlet and Alaska Peninsula areawide lease sales.

In a Sept. 16 release the division said the sales are tentatively scheduled for next spring.

The request is for “substantial new information concerning Cook Inlet and Alaska Peninsula that has become available over the past year,” and the division said it “generally considers ‘substantial new’ information to be published research, studies, or data directly relevant” to matters listed in state statute AS 38.05.035(g).

Based on information received the division will either issue supplements to findings for the sale area or decisions of no substantial new information.

The most recent Cook Inlet areawide final best interest finding was issued in 2018, with a supplement in 2019. The most recent Alaska Peninsula final BIF was issued in 2014 and no supplements have been issue.

The findings are available online at: http://dog.dnr.alaska.gov/Services/BIFAndLeaseSale.

A copy of the public notice and the call for new information can be found at: https://aws.state.ak.us/OnlinePublicNotices/Notices/View.aspx?id=203774.

The deadline for receiving information is Oct. 20 at 5 p.m.

- Petroleum News