E7-22249. Notice on Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sales

AGENCY:

Minerals Management Service, Interior.

ACTION:

List of restricted joint bidders.

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, 2007, through April 30, 2008. The List of Restricted Joint Bidders published in the Federal Register on April 17, 2007, covered the period May 1, 2007, through October 31, 2007.

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, L.P.

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 U.S. LLC

Eni Oil U.S. LLC

Eni Marketing Inc.

Eni BB Petroleum Inc.

Eni U.S. Operating Co. Inc.

Eni BB Pipeline LLC.

Group VIII

Petrobras America Inc.

Dated: October 22, 2007.

Randall B. Luthi,

Director, Minerals Management Service.