News Release

For Immediate Release: 10-23-02

Contact: Nora DeDios (661) 391-6129

CCal-03-8

 

BLM to conduct Oil and Gas Lease Sale December 5

 

The Bureau of Land Management is conducting a sale of oil and gas leases on federal land on Wednesday, December 5, 2002.  The lease sale is being held at the Holiday Inn Select, 801 Truxtun Avenue, in Bakersfield.  The saleroom will open at 8:00 a.m. to allow bidders to register and obtain a bid number.  The competitive oral sale will begin at 9:00 a.m. 

 

A detailed notice of the sale with parcel descriptions, acreage, lease terms and conditions, oral bidding procedures and requirements, and other sale information is available on the internet at http://www.ca.blm.gov/caso/compsales.html.

 

BLM is required by law to periodically offer federal land for lease for oil and gas exploration and development.  Another sale is scheduled for March 12, 2003.  The oil and gas industry is encouraged to make an "expression of interest" for federal land parcels in California that have potential for development.

An expression of interest is a letter or a form listing the legal description of lands an individual or company is interested in seeing offered for lease.  The letter must be received by December 6, 2002 to be considered for the March lease sale.

Expressions of interest should be sent to the Bureau of Land Management, Attention: Leroy Mohorich, 2800 Cottage Way, Suite W-1618, Sacramento, CA, 95825.

BLM encourages those interested to submit an expression of interest at any time to be considered for inclusion in the next scheduled sale.   A lease sale notice will be published in late January listing the parcels that will be offered in the March 12, 2003 sale.

For questions regarding the December 5 sale or to obtain a form to submit an expression of interest, contact Nora DeDios at the BLM Bakersfield Office, (661) 391-6129. 

 

-BLM-

 

Bakersfield Field Office, 3801 Pegasus Drive, Bakersfield, CA  93308