Lease Sale 172

Central Gulf Lease Sale 172 was held on March 17, 1999, in New Orleans, LA.

NOTE: The Sale 172 reports distributed at the Sale site were in error:  One high bid was inadvertently not included, resulting in erroneous information regarding high bid totals and acres receiving bids. The reports posted here are correct.

Bid Evaluation Results  

Final Phase I Decision Matrix (237.86 KB)
Final Phase II Decision Matrix (23.75 KB) (as of June 9, 1999)
Final Phase I Decision Matrix (23.75 KB)
Interim Phase II Decision Report (23.75 KB) (as of June 9, 1999)

Sale Statistics  

The documents below contain statistical information specific to Sale 172, held on March 17, 1999.  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.
  • Summaries of Company Bids: (Report 6) Includes bidding information by companies. Four reports are sorted by company as follows:
  • Sale 172 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.  (Version 2.04G of PKZIP was used to compress this file.  Please read our disclaimer prior to down loading the file.)

Lease Sale Map - Bid Distribution  

Sale 172 Map: Blocks receiving bids, color coded by number of bids. 

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Blocks Receiving Bids  

Blocks Receiving Bids (23.75 KB) (released March 17, 1999)

Miscellaneous Presale Statistics  

Preliminary Sale Statistics (23.75 KB) (released March 16, 1999)

Final Notice of Sale  

NOTE:  The Final Notice of Sale for Sale 172 was published in the Federal Register on February 12, 1999 (64 FR 7485).  On that same day, an appeal of the termination of the lease on Viosca Knoll Block 69 was filed with the MMS.  It is the policy of MMS not to offer for leasing blocks which have lease terminations under appeal.  Therefore, although shown as available for leasing in the document "Blocks Available for Leasing in Gulf of America OCS Oil and Gas Sale 172" included in the Final Sale Notice Package for Sale 172, no bids will be accepted on Viosca Knoll Block 69 in Sale 172; any bids submitted on Viosca Knoll Block 69 for Sale 172 will be returned unopened to the submitter.

Sale Maps

Lease Sale 172

  Files

Lease Terms and Economic Conditionspdf filezipped postscript file
Stipulations and Deferred Blockspdf filezipped postscript file*

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News Releases  

MMS Issues Final Notice of Sale for Central Gulf of Mexico Sale 172 (104.16 KB) (February 12, 1999)
Central Gulf of Mexico Sale 172 Nets $159,109,825 (100.44 KB) (June 10, 1999)
MMS Issues Proposed Notice of Sale for Central Gulf of Mexico Sale 172 (19.97 KB) (November 12, 1998)
Lease Sale in Gulf of Mexico Attracts $171 Million in High Bids (91.86 KB) (March 17, 1999)
Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 172 Receives 273 Bids on 207 Tracts (89.99 KB) (March 16, 1999)