[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 64 (Tuesday, April 3, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 17731]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-8073]


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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, 2001, through October 31, 2001. The 
List of Restricted Joint Bidders published October 6, 2000, in the 
Federal Register at 65 FR 195 covered the period November 1, 2000, 
through April 30, 2001.

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 II, Inc.
Group III. BP Exploration & Oil Inc.; BP Exploration & Production Inc.; 
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.; Amoco Production Company; Vastar Offshore 
Inc.; and Vastar Resources Inc.
Group IV. TotalFinaElf E&P USA, Inc.; Elf Aquitaine Oil Programs, Inc.; 
TOTAL Exploration Production USA, Inc.; and Fina E&P, Inc.
Group V. Chevron Corporation; and Chevron U.S.A. Inc.

    Dated: March 28, 2001.
Thomas R. Kitsos,
Director, Minerals Management Service.
[FR Doc. 01-8073 Filed 4-2-01; 8:45 am]
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