The Department of the Interior will offer 73 million acres offshore from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida for oil and gas exploration and development. The proposed region-wide lease sale scheduled for Aug. 16 would include all available unleased areas in federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico.
Proposed Lease Sale 249, scheduled to be live streamed from New Orleans, will be the first offshore sale under the new Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2017-2022 (Five Year Program). Under this new program, 10 region-wide lease sales are scheduled for the Gulf, where resource potential and industry interest are high and oil and gas infrastructure is well established.
For more information, visit www.Doi.gov or call (504) 736-2590.