Lease Sale 197

Eastern Gulf

Two lease sales in the Eastern Gulf Planning Area were scheduled under the OCS 5-Year Program for 2002-2007. Under the current 1.5 million-acre configuration, Lease Sale 189 was held in 2003 and Sale 197 was held on March 16, 2005. The 2002-2007 5-Year Program did not propose the leasing of any OCS areas withdrawn from leasing by moratoria or executive order.

Important Sale 197 Dates:

  • February 7, 2002 - Federal Register (FR) Call/Notice published
  • March 2002 - Public hearings held in New Orleans and Mobile
  • November 2002/May 2003 - Draft and Final EIS made available to the public, respectively
  • November 2004 - Notice of Availability of Proposed Notice of Sale published in Federal Register
  • February 2005 - Final Notice of Sale published in the Federal Register
  • March 16, 2005 - Sale 197

Final Bid Recap  

Final Bid Recap (23.75 KB) (released May 25, 2005)

Bid Evaluation Results  

Notification of EFT 1/5 Bonus Liability  

Notification of EFT 1/5 Bonus Liability (30.19 KB) (released March 16, 2005)

Sale Statistics  

The documents below contain statistical information specific to Sale 197, held on March 16, 2005. The reports organize the data in several different ways.

Sale Statistics
Includes general summary information on sale bids.

Preliminary Bid Recap by Area & Block for All Bids (Report 1)

Includes complete information on all blocks that received bids. A final bid recap which includes bid acceptance and rejection results will be posted approximately three months after sale day.
High Bids Ranked by Bid Amount
Includes information on all high bids in ranked order.
Analysis of Bids by Company 
Includes information on all bids by all companies.

Summaries of Company Bids (Report 6)
Includes bidding information by companies

Four reports are sorted by company as follows:
Company  Amount Bid  Amount of High Bids  Number of Bids  

Sale 190 ZIP File 

This file displays bid information on acreage, royalty rates, and companies participating in this sale. It contains five fixed format, ASCII data files of tract, bid, and company data as well as a text file which shows the record layouts. (WinZip was used to compress this file. Please read our disclaimer prior to down loading the file.


 

Lease Sale Map - Bid Distribution  

Lease Sales 194 and 197 Files 
 Lease Sale Map – Bid Distributionpdf zipped postscript*
 Active Leases and Bids Received Mappdf zipped postscript*

*Note: This is an encapsulated Postscript plot file generated by ArcView. WinZip 8.1 was used to compress this file. Please read our disclaimer prior to downloading files.

Blocks Receiving Bids  

Blocks Receiving Bids (12.28 KB) (released March 16, 2005)

Miscellaneous Presale Statistics  

Preliminary Sale Statistics (10.24 KB) (released March 15, 2005)

Final Notice of Sale  

Site Map

Lease Sale 197 File 
 Lease Terms and Economic Conditionspdf


*Note: These are enhanced Postscript plot files generated by ArcInfo. They can be plotted locally. Version 8.1 of WINZIP was used to compress these files. Please read our disclaimer prior to downloading files.

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