[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 198 (Friday, October 12, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 52150]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-25746]


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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 November 1, 2001, through April 30, 2002. The 
List of Restricted Joint Bidders published April 3, 2001,in the Federal 
Register at 66 FR 17731 covered the period May 1, 2001, through October 
31, 2001.
    Group I: Exxon Mobil Corporation, Mobil Oil Exploration and 
Producing Southeast Inc., Mobil Producing Texas and New Mexico, Mobil 
Oil Corporation, and Exxon Assets Holdings LLC
    Group II: Shell Oil Company, Shell Offshore Inc., SWEPI LP, Shell 
Frontier Oil & Gas Inc., Shell Consolidated Energy Resources Inc., 
Shell Land & Energy Company Shell Onshore Ventures 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: October 9, 2001.
Thomas R. Kitsos,
Acting Director, Minerals Management Service.
[FR Doc. 01-25746 Filed 10-11-01; 8:45 am]
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