Western Gulf Lease Sale 180 was held on August 22, 2001, in New Orleans, LA, in the Hyatt Regency Conference Center (Cabildo Room), 500 Poydras Plaza.
Lease Sale 180
Final Bid Recap
Bid Evaluation Results
Bid Evaluation Results (updated November 19, 2001)
- Final Phase I Decision Matrix
- Final Phase I Acceptances
- Interim Phase II Decision Report (as of November 13, 2001)
- Final Phase II Decision Matrix (released November 19, 2001)
Notification of EFT 1/5 Bonus Liability
Sale Statistics
The documents below contain statistical information specific to Sale 180, held on August 22, 2001. 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) Four reports are sorted by company as follows:
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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
- View Lease Sale Map - Bid Distribution
- Sale 180 Map - Blocks receiving bids color coded by number of bids
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Blocks Receiving Bids
Miscellaneous Presale Statistics
Final Notice of Sale
Documents that have this symbol are in Adobe Acrobat's pdf format. These files can be downloaded, read and printed using the free Acrobat Reader.
- Cover Sheet for Final Notice of Sale Package
- Final Notice of Sale 180 (released July 23, 2001)
- Information to Lessees for Sale 180
- Lease Stipulations for Oil and Gas Lease Sale 180
- Royalty Suspension Provisions, Sale 180
- List of Blocks Available for Leasing, Sale 180
- Unleased Split Blocks and Available Unleased Acreage of Blocks with Aliquots and Irregular Portions Under Lease or Deferred
- Debarment Certification Form
- Bid Form and Envelope
- Phone Numbers/Addresses of Bidders Form
- Instructions for Making EFT Bonus Payments
Sale Maps
Lease Sale 180 | Files | ||
Lease Terms and Economic Conditions | pdf (color) | pdf (black/white) | zipped postscript* |
Stipulations and Deferred Blocks | pdf (color) | pdf (black/white) | zipped postscript* |
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News Releases
- Western Gulf of Mexico Sale 180 Nets $163,627,562 in High Bids (November 20, 2001)
- Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 180 Attracts $165.5 Million in High Bids (August 22, 2001)
- Western GOM Lease Sale 180 Receives 386 Bids on 320 Tracts; Central GOM Lease Sale 178, Part 2 Receives No Bids (August 21, 2001)
- MMS Issues Final Notice of Western Gulf Lease Sale 180 (July 23, 2001)
- MMS Issues Final Notice of Western Gulf Lease Sale 180 - Fact Sheet (July 23, 2001)
- Proposed Notice of Western Gulf Lease Sale 180 Includes Initiatives to Increase Domestic Energy Production (April 6, 2001)
Special Information Sheets
Supplemental Official OCS Block Diagrams (SOBDs) are now available in Adobe Acrobat’s pdf format for fractional blocks in the Keathley Canyon (NG 15-05) and Sigsbee Escarpment (NG 15-08) Areas abutting the U.S.-Mexico Maritime Boundary, the U.S.-Mexico Continental Shelf Boundary, the U.S. 200 Nautical Mile Limit, and the U.S.-Mexico Continental Shelf Article IV "Area" Limit lines. These SOBDs may be used to determine acreages not shown on the OPD.