[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 202 (Thursday, October 17, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 54213]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-26579]



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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 from November 1, 1996, through April 30, 
1997. The List of Restricted Joint Bidders published April 10, 1996, in 
the Federal Register at 70 FR 15966 covered the period of May 1, 1996, 
through October 31, 1996.
    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.; GalResources LLC.
    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 & 
Oil Inc.; BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.

    Dated: October 9, 1996.
Robert E. Brown,
Acting Director, Minerals Management Service.
[FR Doc. 96-26579 Filed 10-16-96; 8:45 am]
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