BOEM proposes to hold GOM Lease Sale 261 on Wednesday, September 27, 2023.

Lease Sale 261
News Releases
Proposed Notice of Sale Package
Proposed Notice of Sale Package
- Proposed NOS 261
- Proposed NOS 261 Information to Lessees
- Lease Stipulations for Oil and Gas Lease Sale 261
- Example of Preferred Format: Geophysical Data and Information Statement and Sample Envelope
- Blank GDIS Excel Spreadsheet
For Potential Bidders - Provided for your reference and suggested use is a blank digital copy of the GDIS table, in Excel format, which you may download, complete and submit along with the GDIS and your bid.
- Question and Answer section for the GDIS
- Bid Form and Envelope
Companies bidding on blocks that are divided by the Central/Eastern Planning area boundary (specifically those blocks that are in DeSoto Canyon (Map number NH16-11), Lloyd Ridge (Map number NG16-02) and Henderson (Map number NG16-05 ) in the official protraction diagrams) shall provide the acreage as described in the List of Available Blocks by Planning Area noted on the bid and the bid envelope.
- Sale Maps
- Proposed Sale Map
- 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 ArcGIS. They can be plotted locally. Version 19.0 of WINZIP was used to compress these files.