E6-6431. 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 May 1, 2006 through October 31, 2006. The List of Restricted Joint Bidders published in the Federal Register November 7, 2005 covered the period November 1, 2005 through April 30, 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.
	Unocal Corporation
	Union Oil Company of California
	Pure Resources, LP
	Pure Partners, LP
	PRS Offshore, LP
Group VI	ConocoPhillips Company
	ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc
	ConocoPhillips Petroleum Company
	Phillips Pt. Arguello Production Company
Group VII	Eni Petroleum Co. Inc.
	Eni Petroleum Exploration Co. Inc.
	Eni Deepwater 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: April 12, 2006.

R.M. “Johnnie” Burton,

Director, Minerals Management Service.