Bering Sea summary report. Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas activities in the Bering Sea and their onshore impacts

Technical Report · Sat Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1984

OSTI ID:5682904

Deis, J

Three federal Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas lease sales have been held in the Bering Sea Subregion. Lease Sale 57, Norton Basin, was held on March 15, 1983. Bids were received on 64 of the 418 blocks offered, resulting in the Department of the Interior issuing leases for 59 blocks. Lease Sale 70, St. George Basin, held on April 12, 1983, offered 479 blocks, of which 97 received bids. The Department of the Interior was enjoined from issuing leases for almost a year because of a suit against the sale. Leases for 96 blocks resulting from Lease Sale 70 were issued on March 1, 1984. The most recent sale in the Bering Sea Subregion, Lease Sale 83, Navarin Basin, was held on April 17, 1984. The sale, which covered most of the Navarin Basin Planning Area, produced 425 bids on 186 of the 5036 blocks that were offered. On June 1, 1984, leases were issued by the Department of the Interior for 163 blocks. Two exploration plans have been approved for leased blocks in the Norton Basin resulting in exploratory drilling. Seven exploration plans have been submitted for leased blocks in St. George Basin, and a total of six exploratory wells are expected to be spudded during the summer and fall of 1984. The current estimates of risked resources for lands leased in Lease Sale 57, Norton Basin, are 63 million barrels of oil and 242 billion cubic feet of gas. For Lease Sale 70, St. George Basin, estimates of risked resources for leased lands are 12.5 million barrels of oil and 1.453 trillion cubic feet of gas. The estimates for Lease Sale 83, Navarin Basin, are 407 million barrels of oil and 0.428 trillion cubic feet of gas. 33 refs., 10 figs., 5 tabs.

• Research Organization: Rogers, Golden and Halpern, Inc., Reston, VA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5682904
• Report Number(s): OCS/MMS-84-0076; ON: TI85901425
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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