The U.S. Minerals Management Service has released the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for Sale 107 covering leases in the Navarin basin off Alaska.
The sale, tentatively set for July 1991, is to cover more than 28 million acres in 5,036 blocks in the Bering Sea, about 250 miles west of the Alaskan mainland. Water depths range from 230 to 7,900 ft, although most of the area is in less than 600 ft of water.
MMS has conducted or hired contractors to conduct 130 environmental and socioeconomic studies that are applicable to the Navarin basin planning area at a cost of more than $57.4 million.
Copies of the draft EIS can be obtained from the MMS office in Anchorage.
PREVIOUS ACTIVITY
Industry drilled a deep stratigraphic test in the Navarin basin in 1983 and eight wildcats, all plugged, in 1985.
Drilling of the wildcats took place on leases acquired in the first Navarin basin sale, No. 83, conducted Apr. 17, 1984.
Industry offered high bids totaling $631.2 million for 186 blocks, and MMS issued 163 leases.
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