Lease Sale 213

Central Gulf

Central Gulf Lease Sale 213 was held March 17, 2010, at the Louisiana Superdome.

Call for Information/Notice of Preparation of an Environmental Assessment Federal Register Notice (released October 9, 2008)
Call for Information and Nominations Map
(updated acreage information as of September 21, 2009)
Call for Information and Nominations Map
(released October 14, 2008)

Lease Sales 213 Map

Final Bid Recap

Final Bid Recap (23.75 KB) (released August 9, 2011)

Media and Stakeholder Notifications

Preliminary Sale Statistics (23.75 KB) (March 16, 2010)

Bid Evaluation Results

Final Phase II Decision Matrix (85.76 KB) (released July 22, 2011 - revised September 9, 2011)

Final Phase I Acceptances (23.75 KB) (released April 13, 2010)

Interim Phase II Decision Report (23.76 KB) (released July 22, 2011)

Final Phase I Decision Matrix (23.76 KB) (released April 13, 2010)

Notification of EFT 1/5 Bonus Liability

Notification of EFT 1/5 Bonus Liability (441.42 KB) (released March 17, 2010)

Sale Statistics

The documents below contain statistical information specific to Sale 213 held on March 17, 2010. 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

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.

Lease Sale Map - Bid Distribution

Lease Sale 213	Files
Lease Sale Map – Bid Distribution	pdf	zipped postscript
Active Leases and Bids Received Map	pdf	zipped postscript

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Blocks Receiving Bids

Blocks Receiving Bids (23.75 KB) (released March 17, 2010)

Final Notice of Sale

Sale Maps

Lease Sale 213	Files
Lease Terms and Economic Conditions	pdf	zipped postscript
Stipulations and Deferred Blocks	pdf	zipped postscript

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News Releases

Comments Received on Proposed Lease Term Changes (released December 2009)

Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 213 Attracts $ 949 Million in High Bids (March 17, 2010)
Bids Received for MMS Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale (March 16, 2010)
MMS Director Liz Birnbaum to Open Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 213 (March 12, 2010)
MMS Issues Final Notice of Central Gulf Lease Sale 213 (February 11, 2010)
Salazar: Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale to Offer 36 Million Acres for Oil and Gas Development (November 16, 2009)

Instructions for Making EFT Bonus Payments

Instructions for Making EFT Bonus Payments (23.76 KB) (released January 29, 2010)