U.S. Department of the InteriorMinerals Management Service
Office of Communications and Government Affairs
U.S. Department of the Interior
Minerals Management Service
Office of Communications and Government Affairs
SPECIAL INFORMATION
FOR RELEASE:
November 8, 1996OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF OIL AND GAS LEASING HISTORY(Quarterly as of 9/30/96)
| Alaska | Atlantic | GOM | Pacific | Total | |
| Sales Held | 17* | 10* | 75 | 11* | 110* |
| Blocks Offered | 24,659 | 9,160 | 177,166 | 1,887 | 212,872 |
| Leases Issued | 1,562 | 410 | 13,739 | 470 | 16,181 |
| Active Leases | 51 | 47 | 5,706 | 83 | 5,887 |
| Active Acres Leased | |||||
| (millions) | 0.23 | 0.26 | 29.14 | 0.42 | 30.05 |
| Wells drilled | 81 | 49 | 33,046 | 1,131 | 34,307 |
The above tabulation (as of September 30, 1996) does not include Beaufort Sea Sale 144
and Western Gulf of Mexico Sale 161 pending completion of the bid adequacy review for
those sales.
The responsibility for administering the Atlantic leases now rests with the Gulf of
Mexico Region.
* 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.
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