Lease Sale 175

This sale was held on March 15, 2000.

This sale was held on March 15, 2000. The sale was broadcast on Radio Stations: KNON (89.3 FM) in Dallas, KTSU (90.9 FM) in Houston, KRVS (88.7 FM) in Lafayette, WTUL (91.5 FM) in New Orleans, compliments of the Offshore Oil Scouts Association.

NOTE: The Final Notice of Sale for Sale 175 was published in the Federal Register on February 14, 2000, at 65 FR 7394. The Sale Notice Package of supporting documents and maps was made available that day.

Final Bid Recap

Final Bid Recap (23.75 KB) (released June 22, 2000)

Bid Evaluation Results

Final Phase II Decision Matrix (23.75 KB) (as of June 12, 2000)

Final Phase I Decision Matrix (23.75 KB)

Interim Phase II Decision Report (23.75 KB) (as of June 6, 2000)

Final Phase I Acceptances (23.75 KB)

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Notification of EFT 1/5 Bonus Liability

Notification of EFT 1/5 Bonus Liability (23.75 KB) (released March 15, 2000)

Sale Statistics

Final Sale Statistics by Bid System (23.75 KB) (released June 22, 2000)

The documents below contain statistical information specific to Sale 175, held on March 15, 2000. 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 175 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.

Blocks Receiving Bids

Blocks Receiving Bids (23.75 KB) (released March 15, 2000)

Miscellaneous Presale Statistics

Preliminary Sale Statistics (23.75 KB) (released March 14, 2000)

Final Notice of Sale

Sale Maps

Lease Sale 175	Files
Lease Terms and Economic Conditions	pdf	zipped postscript*
Stipulations and Deferred Blocks	pdf	zipped postscript*

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News Releases

Central Gulf of Mexico Sale 175 Nets $292,771,205 in High Bids (June 12, 2000)
Lease Sale in Gulf of Mexico Attracts $301 Million in High Bids (March 15, 2000)
Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 175 Receives 469 Bids on 344 Tracts (March 14, 2000)
MMS Issues Final Notice of Sale for Central Gulf of Mexico Sale 175 (February 14, 2000)
Minerals Management Service Has Prepared an Environmental Assessment for Proposed Federal Oil and Gas Lease Sale 175 in the Central Gulf of Mexico (December 1999)