Subscription accessWestern Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 210
The
Minerals Management Service (MMS) (www.gomr.mms.gov)
has scheduled the Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 210 to be held in
The
proposed lease sale encompasses approximately 3,400 unleased blocks covering
18 million acres in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area (WPA).
The blocks are located from 9 to approximately 250 miles offshore in
water depths of 16 to, more than, 10,975 feet (5 to 3,346 metres).
Map:
210 Western Planning Area (pink shading) and currently leased acreage
(yellow shading). Source:
PetroView®
The
following leases are exceptions to the sale and will not be included in the
sale offering.
Whole blocks and portions of blocks which lie within the boundaries of the
Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary at the East and West Flower
Garden Banks and Stetson Bank (the following list includes all blocks
affected by the Sanctuary boundaries):
-
High Island, East
Addition, South Extension (Leasing Map TX7C); whole block A-398 and
portions of blocks A-366*, A-367, A-374, A-375, A-383*, A-384*, A-385*,
A-388, A-389*, A-397*, A-399, A-401
(*leased);
- Garden Banks (OPD NG15-02);
portions of blocks 134, 135.
Whole blocks and portions which lie within the former Western Gap portion of
the 1.4 nautical mile buffer zone north of the continental shelf boundary
between the
-
Sigsbee Escarpment
(OPD NG15-08); whole blocks 11, 57, 103, 148, 149, 194, and portions of
blocks 12 through 14, 58 through 60, 104 through 106, 150.
The
MMS estimates the proposed lease sale could result in the production of 242
to 423 million barrels of oil and 1.64 to 2.64 trillion cubic feet of
natural gas.
The
proposed NOS 210 package
(www.gomr.mms.gov/homepg/lsesale/210/210noticep.html) contains information
essential to potential bidders including proposed initial periods,
extensions of initial periods, minimum bonus bid amounts, rental rates,
escalating rental rates for leases with an approved extension of the initial
five-year period, royalty rate, minimum royalty, and royalty suspension
provisions, if any, applicable to this sale.
Interested parties can obtain a package from the MMS (www.gomr.mms.gov).