Alaska North Slope operators placed USD 11,268,709 in high bids on 92 tracts covering 1,051,216 ac (4,254 sq km) at the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) sale held by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on 11 December 2019. The sale offered 350 tracts covering 3,987,689 ac (16,138 sq km). The revenue from the 2019 sale was nearly USD 10 million more than the 2018 sale when only 16 tracts were bid on.  The most active company was North Slope Exploration LLC which picked up 85 tracts for a total of USD 10,762,243 in high bids.Â  This included the highest bid of the sale, USD 448,899 for tract 2019-D6 covering 14,397 ac (58 sq km). Emerald House was the high bidder on four tracts, and ConococPhillips successfully bid on three tracts. While the latter two companies picked up acreage along the edges of currently-leased tracts, North Slope Exploration's focus was to the west of this area.  A map of the lease sale tract results is available at:  https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/uploads/OilandGas_Alaska_2019_NPR-A_SaleResultsMap_12112019.pdf
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