Call for new info on Alaska Peninsula

Petroleum News

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas, has issued a call for new information for the 2019 Alaska Peninsula areawide oil and gas lease sale. The Alaska Peninsula areawide sale will be held in conjunction with the Cook Inlet areawide sale, tentatively scheduled for next spring.

The division is requesting substantial new information concerning the Alaska Peninsula that has become available over the past year.

The deadline for information to reach the division is 5 p.m. Oct. 26.

The division said that based on the information received it will either issue a supplement to the finding or a decision of no substantial new information.

The most recent final best interest finding for the Alaska Peninsula was issued in 2014 and is available on the division’s website at http://dog.dnr.alaska.gov/Services/BIFAndLeaseSale/.

The division said it is not seeking new information on the Cook Inlet lease sale area because a preliminary Cook Inlet Areawide best interest finding was issued June 29, with public comments accepted through Aug. 30.

The spring Cook Inlet sale will be based on the final best interest finding which should be available by the end of the year, the division said.

- Petroleum News