Jointly owned tracts split into 640-acres

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas, has changed the size of some tracts in the Beaufort Sea and North Slope areawide sales, the division said Sept. 14, with new data now available for 170 oil and gas lease sale tracts.

Some 54 previously offered LSTs were affected, with the 170 new LSTs created from those 54 tracts.

The division said the tracts, in an area jointly owned by the state and the Arctic Slope Regional Corp. along the Colville River, were previously offered as four sections, up to 2,560 acres. The new LSTs have a maximum of one section, 640 acres.

The division said new lease sale tract numbers have been assigned. LST spatial data are available for download at http://dog.dnr.alaska.gov/GIS/GISDataFiles.htm. Case file and land abstracts for individual LSTs are available at http://dnr.alaska.gov/projects/las/.

More information is available from the division’s Asset Management Section, formerly the Leasing Section, at 907-269-8757 or email [email protected].

The division said the notice, complete details and tract maps for the fall 2015 competitive oil and gas sales will be issued at a later date.

- Petroleum News