The
NewsRoom
Release #: 3121
Date: August 17, 2004
Western Gulf
of Mexico Lease Sale 192 Receives 421 Bids on 351Tracts
The U.S. Department of the
Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS)
Gulf of Mexico Outer
Continental Shelf Region (GOMR) announced at 10 a.m. today that it has
received 421 bids from 45 companies on 351 tracts offered in the
Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 192. Lease Sale 192 will take place
tomorrow, August 18, 2004 at 9 a.m. at the Hilton New Orleans
Riverside Hotel, Two Poydras Street, (Versailles Ballroom) in New
Orleans, Louisiana.
This sale will be WebCast as
follows:
Through the Offshore Oil Scouts
Association at www.oosa.com.
Real Player or
Windows Media Player 6.4 or higher will need to be
installed in order to run the WebCast. (Please note that the
listing of this WebCast on the official MMS web site, as well as the
actual WebCasts of the upcoming MMS lease sales, is provided as a
courtesy for the public and does not imply any endorsement by MMS.)
The Minerals Management Service is the
federal agency in the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages the
nation’s oil, natural gas, and other mineral resources on the Outer
Continental Shelf in Federal offshore waters. The agency also
collects, accounts for, and disburses mineral revenues from Federal
and American Indian lands. MMS disbursed more than $8 billion in FY
2003 and more than $135 billion since the agency was created in 1982.
Nearly $1 billion from those revenues go into the Land and Water
Conservation Fund annually for the acquisition and development of
state and Federal park and recreation lands.
Relevant Web Sites
MMS Main Website
Gulf of Mexico Website
Media Contacts
Caryl Fagot
(504) 736-2590
Nicolette Nye
(504) 736-2775
MMS: Securing Ocean Energy & Economic Value for
America
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