[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 62 (Thursday, March 30, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 16957]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-7869]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE 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 May 1, 2000, through October 31, 2000. The 
List of Restricted Joint Bidders published October 18, 1999, in the 
Federal Register at 64 FR 56215 covered the period November 1, 1999, 
through April 30, 2000.
    Group I: Exxon Mobil Corporation; and ExxonMobil Exploration 
Company.
    Group II: Shell Oil Co.; Shell Offshore Inc.; SWEPILP; 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.; and Shell 
Offshore Properties and Capital Inc.
    Group III: BP Exploration & Oil Inc.; BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.; 
and Amoco Production Company.

    Dated: March 24, 2000.
Thomas R. Kitsos,
Director, Minerals Management Service.
[FR Doc. 00-7869 Filed 3-29-00; 8:45 am]
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