Second ‘Big Beautiful’ Lease Sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet Planned After First Sale Flops
The sale would offer 1 million acres after the first Cook Inlet auction drew no bids, and federal law requires at least six sales by 2032.
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Anchorage Daily News
Second ‘Big Beautiful’ lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet planned after first sale flops
The Trump administration announced plans for a 1 million-acre sale in 2027, part of a series mandated for Cook Inlet in the sweeping “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
US lines up second Alaska offshore lease sale
The US is preparing a second offshore oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, offering about 1.05m acres, despite the programme’s first auction attracting no bids earlier this year. The country’s Marine Minerals Administration (MMA) has issued a proposed notice of sale for the so-called Big Beautiful Cook Inlet 2, or BBC2, covering …
The US administration is preparing to lease approximately 1.05 million acres in Alaska's Cook Inlet region for oil and natural gas exploration. The tender, scheduled for March 3, 2027, will offer 224 blocks to investors. This new initiative follows a previous tender in the same region in March, which received no bids.
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