DNR calls for new Cook Inlet sale information

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas is calling for new information for a Cook Inlet areawide oil and gas lease sale tentatively scheduled for the spring of 2015, requesting “substantial new information” on the Cook Inlet area “that has become available over the last year.”

The Alaska Peninsula areawide sale is also held in the spring, but the division said there was no call for new information for that sale because a preliminary best interest finding for the Alaska Peninsula was issued in June and the division plans to issue a new final BIF for that sale which will apply to the spring sale.

The Cook Inlet sale area includes some 4.2 million gross acres including state-owned uplands in the Matanuska and Susitna valleys “generally south and west of Houston and Wasilla, the Anchorage bowl, and the western shore of Cook Inlet from Beluga River to Harriet Point.” The sale also includes “the tide and submerged lands in upper Cook Inlet from Knik Arm and Turnagain Arm south to Anchor Point and Tuxedni.”

The most recent Cook Inlet areawide BIF was issued in 2009 and the latest supplement in February 2011. Both are available online at: http://dog.dnr.alaska.gov/Leasing/BestInterestFindings.htm.

The deadline for receipt of new information at the division is Nov. 10 at 5 p.m.

- Petroleum News