[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 191 (Friday, October 2, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 53097]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-26398]


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DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service


Notice on Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sales

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service, Interior.

ACTION: List of Restricted Joint Bidders.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the authority vested in the Director of the 
Minerals Management Service by the joint bidding provisions of 30 CFR 
256.41, each entity within one of the following groups shall be 
restricted from bidding with any entity in any other of the following 
groups at Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas lease sales to be held 
during the bidding period from November 1, 1998, through April 30, 
1999. The List of Restricted Joint Bidders published March 25, 1998, in 
the Federal Register. at 63 FR 14473 covered the period of May 1, 1998, 
through October 31, 1998.
    Group I. Exxon Corporation; Exxon San Joaquin Production Co.
    Group II. Shell Oil Co.; Shell Offshore Inc.; Shell Western E&P 
Inc.; Shell Frontier Oil & Gas Inc.; Shell Consolidated Energy 
Resources Inc.; Shell Land & Energy Company; Shell Onshore Ventures 
Inc.; Shell Deepwater Development Inc.; Shell Deepwater Production 
Inc.; Shell Offshore Properties and Capital II Inc.
    Group III. Mobil Oil Corp.; Mobil Oil Exploration and Producing 
Southeast Inc.; Mobil Producing Texas and New Mexico Inc.; Mobil 
Exploration and Producing North America Inc.
    Group IV. BP America Inc.; The Standard Oil Co.; BP Exploration and 
Oil Inc.; BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.

    Dated: September 28, 1998.
Cynthia Quarterman,
Director, Minerals Management Service.
[FR Doc. 98-26398 Filed 10-1-98; 8:45 am]
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