OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF OIL AND GAS LEASING HISTORY (#40025)

                    (Quarterly as of 3/31/94)


                  Alaska  Atlantic       GOM  Pacific    Total

Sales Held            17*       10*       71       11*     106*

Blocks offered    24,659     9,160   149,665    1,887  185,371

Leases Issued      1,562       410    11,442      470   13,884

Active Leases        328        53     5,120       92    5,593

Active Acres Leased
   (millions)       1.75      0.30     26.10     0.46    28.61

Wells drilled         82        51    30,617    1,075   31,825


 
Statistics on Central Gulf of Mexico Sale 147, which was held on
March 30, 1994, are omitted from this table pending the completion
of the bid evaluation analysis.

*    Note that the reoffering Sale RS-2, held on August 5, 1982,
offered oil and gas tracts on the Alaska, Atlantic, and Pacific OCS
and is recorded as a separate sale within each of those Regions. 
However, Sale RS-2 is considered a single sale in the overall
statistical summary on OCS leasing.


Subject: PR-4/11/94 OCS Leasing/OCS Oil & Gas Leasing History
(3/31/94) #40025