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Buy Alaska leases
Bid method for 3 areawide sales is cash bonus, fixed royalty, deadline Nov.13
Kay Cashman Petroleum News
On Sept. 29, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas posted a notice saying that it is offering State of Alaska lands for competitive oil and gas leasing in the Beaufort Sea Areawide 2025W (BSA 2025W), the North Slope Areawide 2025W (NSA 2025W), and the North Slope Foothills Areawide 2025 (FHA 2025).
This notice is available on the State of Alaska Online Public Notice
System at https://aws.state.ak.us/OnlinePublicNotices/
(See map and charts in the online issue PDF)
Lease sale locations The Beaufort Sea Areawide includes approximately 1.7 million acres of state-owned land in 570 tracts ranging in size from 530 to 5,760 acres. The sale area is primarily offshore acreage that extends from the Canadian border in the east to Point Barrow in the west. The northern boundary is along the federal Alaska Outer Continental Shelf. The southern boundary is along the North Slope Areawide and includes onshore acreage between the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska (NPR-A). This areawide is in the North Slope Borough.
The North Slope Areawide includes approximately 5.0 million acres of state-owned land in 3,121 tracts, ranging in size from 160 to 5,760 acres. The sale area encompasses primarily onshore acreage between the Canning River and ANWR on the east and the Colville River and NPR-A on the west. The northern boundary is along the Beaufort Sea Areawide. The southern boundary is along the Umiat Meridian baseline.
Some tracts are jointly owned by the State of Alaska and Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC). This areawide is in the North Slope Borough.
The North Slope Foothills Areawide includes approximately 4.3 million acres of State-owned land in 818 tracts, ranging in size from 240 to 5,760 acres. The sale area is onshore acreage between ANWR on the east and NPR-A on the west. The northern boundary is along the Umiat Meridian baseline, and the southern boundary is the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. This areawide is in the North Slope Borough.
The bidding method for all the lease sales will be cash bonus with fixed royalty. The sales will be conducted by sealed bid auction.
The bidding method, minimum bid, and terms and conditions are shown in the attached table. Bids for less than the minimum per-acre bid will be rejected.
The division has contracted with EnergyNet Services LLC to provide an online bidding system for the three sales. Bidder registration and bid submission will be on the EnergyNet Government Listings site at https://www.energynet.com.
Sale dates All sales times listed are Anchorage, Alaska Local Time.
* First day to submit bids with EnergyNet -- Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025.
* Deadline to submit bids with EnergyNet -- Thursday, Nov.13, 2025, at 12:00 p.m.
* Bidding results available to the public online at https://dog.dnr.alaska.gov -- Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025, at 9:00 a.m.
Complete details regarding these lease sales are on the division website at
https://dog.dnr.alaska.gov/LeaseSale. Sale documents include this Notice of Sale, Sale Announcement and Instructions to Bidders, Areawide Sale Information, Attachment A with
Estimated Acreages and deferred tracts, lease forms, mitigation measures, and a tract map.
Interested parties can call (907) 269-8800 or email [email protected]. if they are unable to access sale information.
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