Lease Sale 216/222

• Environmental documents related to this Sale

The documents below contain statistical information specific to Sale 216/222 held on June 20, 2012. 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. The four reports are sorted by company as follows:
  • Company
  • Amount Bid
  • Amount of High Bids
  • Number of Bids
• Sale 216/222 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.

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• Cover Sheet for Final Notice of Sale Package
• Final NOS 216/222
• Information to Lessees for Sale 216/222
• Lease Stipulations for Oil and Gas Lease Sale 216/222
• List of Blocks Available for Leasing (pdf file) or (zipped ASCII file)
• Unleased Split Blocks and Available Unleased Acreage of Blocks with Aliquots and Irregular Portions Under Lease or Deferred
• Example of Preferred Format: Geophysical Data and Information Statement and Sample Envelope
• Telephone Numbers/Addresses of Bidders Form
• Bid Form and Envelopes
• Sale Maps
  • Lease Terms and Economic Conditions (pdf file) or (zipped postscript file*)
  • Stipulations and Deferred Blocks (pdf file) or (zipped postscript file*)

*Note: These are enhanced Postscript plot files generated by ArcMap. They can be plotted locally. Version 8.1 of WINZIP was used to compress these files. 

BOEM Completes Tract Evaluation and Awards Leases

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management completed its required evaluation to ensure that the public receives fair market value for tracts leased as part of Central Gulf Oil and Gas Lease Sale 216/222, which was held on June 20, 2012.

After extensive economic analysis, BOEM has awarded 442 leases on tracts covering 2,335,646 acres to the successful high bidders who participated in the sale, which made 7,434 unleased blocks covering more than 39 million acres available offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The accepted high bids are valued at $1,681,578,390.

During the sale, 56 companies submitted 593 bids totaling $2,602,563,726 on 454 tracts. A total of $1,704,500,995 was received in high bids. BOEM rejected twelve high bids, totaling $22,922,605 after determining that the value of those bids was insufficient to provide the public with fair market value for the tracts.

BOEM will reoffer these tracts as part of the next Central Gulf sale, which is currently scheduled for March 20, 2013.

The highest bid accepted was $157,111,000, submitted by Statoil Gulf of Mexico LLC for Mississippi Canyon, Block 718. The tract is at depths of 2,625 to 5,249 feet (800-1600 meters) and received four bids.  

Obama Administration Announces Proposed Central Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale (January 26, 2012)

• Cover Sheet for Proposed Notice of Sale Package
• Proposed NOS 216/222
• Information to Lessees for Sale 216/222
• Lease Stipulations for Oil and Gas Lease Sale 216/222
• Example of Preferred Format: Geophysical Data and Information Statement and Sample Envelope
• Sale Maps
  • Lease Terms and Economic Conditions (pdf file) or (zipped postscript file*)
  • Stipulations and Deferred Blocks (pdf file) or (zipped postscript file*)

*Note: These are enhanced Postscript plot files generated by ArcMap. They can be plotted locally. Version 8.1 of WINZIP was used to compress these files.