Alaska hands out acreage

摘要

The Alaska Bureau of Land Management(BLM)has awarded five operators oil and gas tracts in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska(NPR-A)for a total sum of US 31m.The bids were awarded during a BLM lease sale yesterday in Anchorage.The bids cover 150 tracks on more than 1.6m acres in the 23m acre reserve,according to reports.The five winners were Anadarko Petroleum,ConocoPhillips,Petro- Canada,FEX and Petro-Hunt.