Upcoming auctions

The next North Dakota Department of Trust Lands Minerals Management Division lease auction is scheduled for May 7. The location and time are yet to be announced. The nomination period for the North Dakota sale closes at 5:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time on March 22.

The Bureau of Land Management’s Montana/Dakotas office will hold its next oil and gas lease auction on May 8 at the Montana BLM office in Billings, beginning at 9:00 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time. A total of 93,731 acres will be offered in 198 tracts. Most of the acreage, 92,310 acres or approximately 98 percent (194 tracts) in the May BLM auction are in eastern Montana, with the remaining 1,420 acres (four tracts) in North Dakota. The Montana tracts are in Daniels, Garfield, McCone, Prairie, Richland and Roosevelt counties. The four North Dakota tracts are in Slope County.

The next Montana DNRC sale is scheduled for June 4 and will be held in the Montana Department of Transportation auditorium in Helena beginning at 9:00 a.m. Nominations for the next DNRC sale close at 5:00 pm Mountain Daylight Time on March 19.

—Mike Ellerd

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