MMS issues proposed Eastern Gulf lease sale notice
  by: OilOnline
  Monday, July 21, 2003

The Minerals Management Service published a notice of availability for Proposed Notice of Sale 189 in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, tentatively scheduled for Dec. 10. The area is said to have potential oil and gas. Anadarko already reported a discovery in the sale area - its Atlas prospect on Lloyd Ridge Block 50. BP is producing inside the sale area at its King Peak project in Desoto Canyon Block 133. The lease sale will include 256 blocks covering about 1.47 million acres. The proposed sale notice includes a requirement that each bidder submit, by the bid submission deadline, a geophysical data and information statement declaring whether they possess or control depth-migrated geophysical data and information pertaining to each block upon which they are participating as a bidder.