Central Planning Area Lease Sale 247 Information

• Final Phase II Acceptances (June 19, 2017)
• Final Phase II Acceptances (June 15, 2017)
• Final Phase II Acceptances (June 8, 2017)
• Final Phase II Acceptances (June 1, 2017)
• Final Phase II Acceptances (May 25, 2017)
• Final Phase II Acceptances (May 18, 2017)
• Final Phase II Acceptances (May 12, 2017)
• Final Phase II Acceptances (April 13, 2017)
• Final Phase II Acceptances (April 27, 2017)
• Final Phase II Acceptances (May 5, 2017)

• Phase II Decision Matrix (June 20, 2017)

Sale 247 held on Wednesday, March 22, 2017, in New Orleans, LA, was broadcast live on the internet delivering pertinent information immediately to a much broader national and international audience.

Watch the video presentation of the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for proposed Central Planning Area Lease Sale 247. The proposed oil and gas lease sale is tentatively scheduled to be held in March 2017 under the current 5-Year Program. BOEM published the Draft Supplemental EIS February 26, 2016. You may download or view the document at www.boem.gov/nepaprocess. The deadline for submitting a comment is April 11, 2016.

The documents below contain statistical information specific to Sale 247 held on March 22, 2017. 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 (Report 4) 
  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. The four reports are sorted by company as follows:
  • Company
  • Amount Bid
  • Amount of High Bids
  • Number of Bids
• Sale 247 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.

*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 - ASCII file 
  Note: This file contains the two letter area identifier, block number, and number of bids received on that block. Please read our disclaimer prior to downloading files.

• Cover Sheet for Final Notice of Sale Package
• Final NOS 247
• Information to Lessees for Sale 247
• Lease Stipulations for Oil and Gas Lease Sale 247
• List of Blocks Available for Leasing (pdf file) or (zipped ASCII file)
• Unleased Split Blocks and Available Unleased Acreage of Blocks and Irregular Portions
• Example of Preferred Format: Geophysical Data and Information Statement and Sample Envelope
• Blank GDIS Excel Spreadsheet
  For Potential Bidders - Provided for your reference and suggested use is a blank digital copy of the GDIS table, in Excel format, which you may download, complete and submit along with the GDIS and your bid.
• Telephone Numbers/Addresses of Bidders Form (August 2012)
• Bid Form and Envelopes
• Sale Maps
  • Lease Terms and Economic Conditions (pdf file) or (zipped postscript file*)
  • Stipulations and Deferred Blocks (pdf file) or (zipped postscript file*) 
    
    *Note: These are Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) files generated through Adobe Acrobat Version 19.0 of WINZIP was used to compress these files.

• News Releases
  • Note to Stakeholders - Leases Awarded for Gulf of Mexico Sale 247 (June 27, 2017)
  • Press Release - Successful Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale Yields $275 Million in High Bids on 913,542 Acres in Central Planning Area (March 22, 2017)
  • Media Advisory - Department of Interior and BOEM Announce 48 Million Acres to be Offered in Lease Sale Offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama (March 21, 2017)
  • Press Release - Bureau to Offer 48 Million Acres in Central Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale (December 22, 2016)
  • Note to Stakeholders - March Lease Sale to Offer All Available Acreage in the Central Gulf of Mexico (September 14, 2016)
  • Note to Stakeholders - BOEM Issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Proposed Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Central Planning Area Lease Sale 247 (February 25, 2016)
  • Note to Stakeholders - BOEM Issues a Notice of Intent to Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Central Planning Area Lease Sale 247  (August 13, 2015)
  • Media Advisory - BOEM to Hold Public Meetings on Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed Oil and Gas Lease Sales in two Gulf of Mexico Planning Areas (February 23, 2015)
  • Media Advisory - BOEM Invites Public to Comment on Environmental Impacts of Oil and Gas Development in the Central Gulf of Mexico (April 4, 2014)
  • Note to Stakeholders - BOEM Issues Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed Oil and Gas Lease Sales in two Gulf of Mexico Planning Areas (January 29, 2015)
  • Note to Stakeholders - BOEM Issues Supplemental Environmental Impact Statements for Proposed Oil and Gas Lease Sales in two Gulf of Mexico Planning Areas (March 21, 2014)
  • Note to Stakeholders - BOEM to hold public meetings on Supplemental EIS for Gulf Central Planning Area (August 23, 2013)

• Special Information - BOEM Issues a Notice of Availability of the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Central Planning Area Lease Sale 247 (September 2016)
• Special Information - BOEM Issues a Notice of Intent to Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and an Opportunity for Scoping Comments for Proposed Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Central Planning Area Lease Sale 247 (August 2-15)
• Special Information - BOEM Issues a Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Central Planning Area Lease Sales 241 and 247 and Eastern Planning Area Lease Sale 226 (January 2015)
• Special Information - BOEM Issues Notice of Availability of the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Central Planning Area Lease Sales 235, 241, and 247 (September 2014)
• Special Information - BOEM Issues a Notice of Intent to Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and an Opportunity for Scoping Comments for Proposed Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Central Planning Area Lease Sales 241 and 247 and Eastern Planning Area Lease Sale 226 (June 2014)
• Special Information - BOEM Issues Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and of Plans to Hold Public Meetings for Proposed Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Central Planning Area Lease Sales 235, 241, and 247 (March 2014)

• Federal Register Notice - Gulf of Mexico, Outer Continental Shelf, Central Planning Area Oil and Gas Lease Sale 247 (December 24, 2016)
• Federal Register Notice - Gulf of Mexico Central Planning Area Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale 247 (December 24, 2016)
• Federal Register Notice - Central Gulf of Mexico Planning Area Outer Continental Shelf, 247 (September 16, 2016)
• Federal Register Notice - Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Central Planning Area Oil and Gas Lease Sale 247 (September 16, 2016)
• Federal Register Notice - Outer Continental Shelf, Gulf of Mexico, Oil and Gas Lease Sale, Central Planning Area Lease Sale 247 (February 26, 2016)
• Federal Register Notice - Outer Continental Shelf, Gulf of Mexico, Oil and Gas Central Planning Area Lease Sales 241 and 247 and Eastern Planning Area Lease Sale 226​​ (September 4, 2015)
• Federal Register Notice - Outer Continental Shelf, Gulf of Mexico, Oil and Gas Lease Sale, Central Planning Area Lease Sale 247 (August 17, 2015)
• Federal Register Notice - Gulf of Mexico, Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), Central Planning Area (CPA) Oil and Gas Lease Sales 235, 241, and 247 (February 6, 2015)
• Federal Register Notice - Outer Continental Shelf, Gulf of Mexico, Oil and Gas Central Planning Area Lease Sales 241 and 247 and Eastern Planning Area Lease Sale 226
• Federal Register Notice - Notice of Availability (NOA) of the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) - Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), Gulf of Mexico (GOM), Oil and Gas Lease Sales, Central Planning Area (CPA) Lease Sales 235, 241, and 247 (September 19, 2014)
• Federal Register Notice - Notice of Intent (NOI) to Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Lease Sales 235, 241, and 247

• Proposed NOS 247 Package
• Blank GDIS Table in Excel format
  For Potential Bidders - Provided for your reference and suggested use is a blank digital copy of the GDIS table, in Excel format, which you may download, complete and submit along with the GDIS and your bid.
• Instructions for Making EFT Bonus Payments (January 5, 2015)
• Sale Maps
  • Lease Terms and Economic Conditions (pdf file) or (zipped postscript file*)
  • Stipulations and Deferred Blocks (pdf file) or (zipped postscript file*)
    
    *Note: These are enhanced Postscript plot files generated by ArcGIS. They can be plotted locally. Version 19.0 of WINZIP was used to compress these files.