WASHINGTON - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of strengthening America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management-Eastern States will hold its quarterly online oil and gas lease sale June 21, 2018. The sale will include 24 parcels totaling 2,202.87 acres that are located in Cleburne and Van Buren Counties, Arkansas. A 10-day protest period begins with publication of the sale notice.
The online auction will begin at 8 a.m. EDT on https://www.energynet.com/index.pl. Each parcel will have its own unique open bidding period with start and stop times clearly identified on the auction website. The open bidding period for each parcel will run for three hours from start to finish, and bids will be accepted only during a parcel’s open bidding period. The auction website is open to everyone; however, you must register as a bidder on the EnergyNet site before the sale in order to submit bids for any individual parcel.
The public may protest any of the parcels being offered in the sale until April 20, 2018. Protests must be submitted via postal service, postmarked by the due date, and sent to the BLM Eastern States Office, Attention: State Director, 20 M Street SE, Suite 950, Washington, D.C. 20003; or by fax to: 202-912-7798. Protests may not be e-mailed or hand-delivered. The sale notice, environmental assessments, maps of the parcels, and the attached stipulations are linked at the BLM Eastern States website here: https://www.blm.gov/programs/energy-and-minerals/oil-and-gas/leasing/regional-lease-sales/eastern-states.
Oil and gas leases sales support domestic energy production and American energy independence. The BLM’s energy program follows an all-of-the-above approach that includes oil and gas, coal, strategic minerals and renewable sources, all of which can be developed on public lands.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
