Federal Register: December 5, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 233)

DOCID: FR Doc E6-20495

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service

NOTICE: NOTICES

ACTION: Outer Continental Shelf Operations:

DOCUMENT ACTION: List of restricted joint bidders

SUBJECT CATEGORY:

Notice on Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sales

DOCUMENT 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 November 1, 2006 through April 30, 2007. The List of Restricted Joint Bidders published in the Federal Register April 28, 2006 covered the period May 1, 2006 through October 31, 2006. Group I. Exxon Mobil Corporation
ExxonMobil Exploration Company.
Group II. Shell Oil Company
Shell Offshore Inc.
SWEPI LP.
Shell Frontier Oil & Gas Inc.
Shell Consolidated Energy Resources Inc.
Shell Land & Energy Company.
Shell Onshore Ventures Inc.
Shell Offshore Properties and Capital II, 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. TOTAL E&P USA, Inc.
Group V. Chevron Corporation
Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
Chevron Midcontinent, L.P.
Unocal Corporation.
Union Oil Company of California.
Pure Partners, LP.
Group VI. ConocoPhillips Company
ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc.
ConocoPhillips Petroleum Company.
Phillips Pt. Arguello Production Company.
Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Company LP.
Burlington Resources Offshore Inc.
The Louisiana Land and Exploration Company.
Inexeco Oil Company.
Group VII. Eni Petroleum Co. Inc.
Eni Petroleum Exploration Co. Inc.
Eni Petroleum U.S. LLC.
Eni Oil U.S. LLC.
Eni Marketing Inc.
Eni BB Petroleum Inc.
Eni US Operating Co. Inc.
Eni BB Pipeline LLC.
Group VIII. Petrobras America Inc.

Dated: November 7, 2006.
R.M. ``Johnnie'' Burton,
Director, Minerals Management Service.
[FR Doc. E620495 Filed 12406; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4310MRP

SUMMARY:

Oil and gas lease sales—; Restricted joint bidders list,