BOEM Announces Lease Sale 218 Statistics

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has announced the results of the Dec. 14 Western US Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale. The sum of all high bids was $337,688,341.
The star of the show was Keathley Canyon 95, for which ConocoPhilips bid $103,200,000. The block is less than 20 miles from the operator’s Tiber discovery.
ConocoPhillips led the list of Top Ten Companies Based on Total Number of High Bids:
  1. ConocoPhillips: 75, totaling $157,816,740
  2. Exxon Mobil: 50, totaling $63,293,750
  3. Maersk Oil Gulf of Mexico Two: 12, totaling $36,010,792
  4. BP Exploration & Production: 11, totaling $27,458,809
  5. Plains Exploration & Production: 10, totaling $12,780,000
  6. Anadarko US Offshore: 7, totaling $19,317,210
  7. Ecopetrol America: 7, totaling $6,000,000
  8. Shell Offshore: 3, totaling $4,951,858
  9. Apache: 3, totaling $1,693,927
  10. Castex Offshore: 2, totaling $4,200,000
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