March 15, 2007 Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale Notice

December 14, 2006 Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale Notice

September 7, 2006, Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale Notice

Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale, June 15, 2006

Over the Counter Lease offers from the March 23rd, 2006 Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale

Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale, March 23, 2006

Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale, December 15, 2005

Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale, March 24, 2005

Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale, December 16, 2004

Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale, September 23, 2004

Public Drawing for Next-Day Filings June 23, 2004

• View Notice

Competitive Lease Sale June 18,2004:

• Competitive Results for June 18,2004 Lease sale(PDF, 183K)
• Noncompetitive Parcels Available for Next-Day Filings (PDF, 32K)
• June 18, 2004 Errata Sheet 3
• June 18, 2004 Errata Sheet 2
• June 18, 2004 Errata Sheet 1
• Notice of Oil & Gas Competitive Lease Sale Jun 18, 2004 (PDF, 330K)

Competitive Lease Sale May 17, 2004:

• Competitive Results List for May 17,2004 Lease Sale
• Results of the April1, 20004,Over the Counter Filings
• Notice of Oil & Gas Competitive Lease Sale May 17, 2004 (PDF, 210K)

Public Drawing for Next-Day OTC Offers

• Public Drawing for Next-Day OTC Offers April 1, 2004

Competitive Lease March 18, 2004:

• Competitive Results List for March 18,2004 Lease Sale
• Update to March 18, 2004 Competitive Lease Sale Notice (PDF)
• Correction to March 18 Notice (PDF)
• Notice of Oil & Gas Competitive Lease Sale March 18, 2004 (PDF)

Competitive Lease December 18, 2003:

• View Results
• Notice of Oil & Gas Competitive Lease Sale
• Update to Dec 18th Notice

Non-Competitive Lease Sale September 26, 2003:

Competitive Lease Sale September 25, 2003:

• Notice of Oil & Gas Competitive Lease Sale September 25, 2003 (PDF, 694K)
• View Errata Sheet (PDF, 21K)
• View Results (PDF, 91K)

Competitive Lease Sale June 19, 2003:

• Notice of Oil & Gas Competitive Lease Sale June 19, 2003 (PDF, 628K)
• View Errata Sheet 1(PDF, 88K)
• View Errata Sheet 2 (PDF, 107K)
• View Results (PDF, 53K)

Archive of past Lease Auction results

Lease records are now available online through LR 2000 hosted on the National Bureau of Land Management site

Energy & Minerals

BLM, Eastern States manages about 39 million acres of subsurface federal mineral estate.

Currently, we administer 3,300 leases for oil and gas exploration covering about 1.8 million acres, primarily in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. More than $405,000 was generated from our December 2000 and March 2001 competitive oil and gas lease sales.

An increase in leasing activity is expected through implementation of the Administration’s new Energy Policy. Critical work activities will remain focused on Oil and Gas Leasing, inspection and enforcement, processing Applications for Permit to Drills, including processing of sundry notices, NEPA, agreements and bond reviews. We performed more than 700 inspections of oil and gas well in FY 2000, and expect to conduct at least 600 inspections in FY 2001. Assignments will also be high priority. Consideration is being given to:

• Contracting NEPA work;
• Enhancing E-commerce transactions (applications, approvals, fund transfers);
• Streamlining the process for obtaining consent from surface management agencies.

Recent comparison of overall satisfaction with the BLM rated Eastern States slightly higher than the three other BLM state offices where oil and gas is a primary program. This customer satisfaction report was prepared for BLM by an independent consulting group in December 2000.

Solid Minerals Leasing activity is expected to remain stable. We will continue core work activities with the most critical functions being inspection and enforcement, verification NEPA, coal leasing, hardrock competitive leasing, post-lease, mining claim recordation and bonding.

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