Lease Sale 205

The documents below contain statistical information specific to Sale 205, held on October 3, 2007.  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.
  Four reports are sorted by company as follows:
  • Company
  • Amount Bid
  • Amount of High Bids
  • Number of Bids
• Sale 205 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.)

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Original Package

• Cover Sheet for Final Notice of Sale Package (revised September 6, 2007)
• Final Notice of Sale
• Lease Stipulations
• Information to Lessees
• List of Blocks Available for Leasing  (revised September 6, 2007)
• Unleased Split Blocks and Available Unleased Acreage of Blocks with Aliquots and Irregular Portions Under Lease or Deferred  (revised September 6, 2007)
• Example of Preferred Format: Geophysical Data and Information Statement and Sample Envelope
• Telephone Numbers/Addresses of Bidders Form
• Bid Form and Envelope 

Sale Maps

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• Central Gulf of Mexico Sale 205 Nets $ 2,829,926,881 in High Bids  (February 29, 2008)
• Record Oil and Gas Lease Sale Attracts $2,904,321,011 for Offshore Tracts in the Central Gulf of Mexico  (October 3, 2007)
• Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale Receives 1,428 Bids on 723 Tracts  (October 2, 2007)
• Secretary of the Interior to Open Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 205  (September 27, 2007)
• MMS Issues Final Notice of Central Gulf Lease Sale 205  (August 31, 2007)
• MMS Issues Proposed Notice of Central Gulf Lease Sale 205  (May 22, 2007)
• MMS Issues Final Multisale Environmental Statement  (April 13, 2007)