What’s New?
On June 25, 2025 BOEM announced the Proposed Notice of Sale (Proposed NOS) for an oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of America, which is scheduled for December 2025.
In support of Lease Sale 262, BOEM is proposing to offer approximately 15,000 unleased blocks in Lease Sale 262, ranging from three to 231 miles offshore, across the Gulf’s Western, Central, and Eastern planning areas, at water depths between nine feet and more than 11,115 feet (three to 3,400 meters).
Proposed Notice of Sale Package
- Proposed NOS 262
- Proposed NOS 262 Information to Lessees
- Lease Stipulations for Oil and Gas Lease Sale 262
- 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.