GOM Region-Wide Sale to Offer 14,700 Blocks in Shallow, Deepwater

The Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management next month plans to offer 78 million acres for oil and natural gas prospecting in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), basically all available unleased areas in federal waters.

• Carolyn Davis
• NGI

Lease Sale 252, scheduled to be livestreamed on March 20 from New Orleans, is to include nearly 14,700 blocks that are three to 231 miles offshore, in the Western, Central and Eastern planning areas in water depths that are nine-to-11,115 feet.

Next month’s sale would be the fourth of 10 under the 2017-2022 National Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and…

• GOM Region-Wide…