The 2019-2024 National OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Draft Proposed Program (DPP) provides for three OCS Oil & Gas lease sales in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea: One each in 2019, 2021 and 2023. These lease sales have not yet received numerical designations.
The 2019-2024 DPP has not yet been approved, and a sale cannot take place unless the program in which it was proposed has been approved. But a great deal of advance planning is required to conduct a lease sale.The fact that BOEM staff have initiated planning for these potential lease sales does not mean a decision has been made as to whether or not to hold these sales.
The 2019-2024 National OCS Oil & Gas Leasing Program is expected to be finalized in 2019. The proposed 2019 Beaufort Sea lease sale, if kept on the schedule, would be held later in 2019.
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| Mar 14 | BOEM announces that it will issue a Call for Information and Nominations (Call) covering three proposed sales in the Beaufort Sea Planning Area in 2019, 2021, and 2023, respectively, as included in the 2019-2024 National Draft Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Draft Proposed Program that BOEM published Jan. 4, 2018. The purpose of the Call is to solicit industry nominations for areas of leasing interest and to gather comments and information on the area included in the Call for consideration in planning future OCS oil and gas lease sales. The Call will appear in the Federal Register's Reading Room on Thursday, March 15, and in the Federal Register itself on Friday, May 16. The publication of the Call in the Federal Register will initiate a 60-day public comment period lasting from March 16, 2018 to 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, May 15, 2018.
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