Alaska To Offer Nearly 15 Million Acres for Oil, Gas Drilling Leases
by Tennille Tracy
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Dow Jones Newswires | Thursday, June 30, 2011 | 8:46 AM EST
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)
The state of Alaska plans to offer nearly 15 million acres of state-owned land and waters for oil-drilling leases, saying the areas contain billions of barrels of oil.
The lease sale will be held Oct. 26, 2011, the state said Thursday.
The sale will involve 2 million acres in the Beaufort Sea, 5.1 million acres on the North Slope and 7.6 million acres in the North Slope foothills.
Roughly 3 billion to 6 billion barrels of undiscovered oil exists in the state- and Alaska Native-owned lands between the National Petroleum Reserve and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the state said.
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