March 17, 2010
The Outer Continental Shelf Sale 213 was held in New Orleans on March 17, 2010. Sale 213 resulted in 642 bids, by 77 companies, on 468 tracts, for a total of $1,300,075,693. The total sum of apparent winning bids was $949,265,959, on approximately 2.48 million acres.
The big players, in terms of number of tracts bid on, are:
- Maersk Oil Gulf of Mexico Two LLC - 78 bids
- Chevron U.S.A. Inc. - 60 bids
- Mariner Energy, Inc. - 59 bids
- Anadarko E&P Company LP - 53 bids
- BP Exploration & Production Inc. - 39 bids
In terms of total amount exposed, we have:
- Anadarko E&P Company LP - $169.8 million
- Maersk Oil Gulf of Mexico Two LLC - $109.2 million
- Shell Offshore Inc. - $107.4 million
- Chevron U.S.A. Inc. - $89.6 million
- Nexen Petroleum Offshore U.S.A. Inc. - $75.0 million
In terms of total amount of high bids, we have:
- Anadarko E&P Company LP - $127.6 million
- Maersk Oil Gulf of Mexico Two LLC - $97.3 million
- Shell Offshore Inc. - $89.2 million
- Chevron U.S.A. Inc. - $79.5 million
- Mariner Energy, Inc. - $62.8 million