BLM taking comments on NPR-A lease sale - July 03, 2011

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryJuly 2011

Vol. 16, No. 27

Week of July 03, 2011

BLM taking comments on NPR-A lease sale

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is asking for comments on the acreage it plans to offer at a lease sale in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska later this year.

The federal agency put out a notice in the Federal Register on June 21 asking for companies and the public to nominate or comment on the tract available for leasing.

The BLM is accepting comments through July 21.

President Obama announced plans in May to hold annual lease sales in the NPR-A as a way to increase domestic production. While the BLM originally planned to begin those sales after it completed a new integrated activity plan for the reserve around 2013, it subsequently decided to expedite a sale for later this year in the northern end of the reserve.

—Eric Lidji

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