[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 87 (Thursday, May 6, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 24966]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-10692]


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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, 2010, through October 31, 2010. The 
List of Restricted Joint Bidders published in the Federal Register on 
November 23, 2009, covered the period November 1, 2009, through April 
30, 2010.
    Group I. Exxon Mobil Corporation, ExxonMobil Exploration Company.
    Group II. Shell Oil Company, Shell Offshore Inc., SWEPI LP, Shell 
Frontier Oil & Gas Inc., Shell Onshore Ventures Inc., SOI Finance Inc., 
Shell Rocky Mountain Production LLC, Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc.
    Group III. BP America Production Company, BP Exploration & 
Production Inc., BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.
    Group IV. Chevron Corporation, Chevron U.S.A. Inc., Chevron 
Midcontinent, L.P., Unocal Corporation, Union Oil Company of 
California, Pure Partners, L.P.
    Group V. ConocoPhillips Company, ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc., 
ConocoPhillips Petroleum Company, Phillips Pt. Arguello Production 
Company, Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Company L.P., Burlington 
Resources Offshore Inc., The Louisiana Land and Exploration Company, 
Inexco Oil Company.
    Group VI. Eni Petroleum Co. Inc., Eni Petroleum US LLC, Eni Oil US 
LLC, Eni Marketing Inc., Eni BB Petroleum Inc., Eni US Operating Co. 
Inc., Eni BB Pipeline LLC.
    Group VII. Petrobras America Inc., Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.
    Group VIII. StatoilHydro ASA, Statoil Gulf of Mexico LLC, 
StatoilHydro USA E&P, Inc., StatoilHydro Gulf Properties Inc.

    Dated: April 12, 2010.
S. Elizabeth Birnbaum,
Director, Minerals Management Service.
[FR Doc. 2010-10692 Filed 5-5-10; 8:45 am]
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