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The New Mexico office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said it has postponed an oil and gas lease sale of Permian Basin property scheduled for Wednesday until early September on the grounds that it wants to provide adequate public notice of the sale.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) office in Reno, NV, held an oil/natural gas lease sale involving more than 50,000 acres in two northern counties on Tuesday, and the market spoke loud and clear above the chanting of protesters from the national “Keep It in the Ground” campaign that wants to end leasing on public and tribal lands.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Utah on Monday postponed a scheduled oil/natural gas lease sale set for Tuesday to allow more time to accommodate what the agency called a high level of public interest. Environmental groups applauded the action. “Dozens of citizens” were planning to protest the auction, they said.

Wyoming sold oil and natural gas leases in a quarterly auction Wednesday, generating $3.49 million in revenues involving 71,960 acres, the Office of State Lands and Investments said.

Chevron Corp. said it has reached agreements to acquire two adjoining parcels of land totaling 61 acres in Moon Township in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area as a potential site for its regional headquarters office campus.

Chevron Corp. said it has reached agreements to acquire two adjoining parcels of land totaling 61 acres in Moon Township in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area as a potential site for its regional headquarters office campus.

The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said it will hold a lease sale for oil and natural gas parcels in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) next month.

An auction of natural gas and oil leases on Michigan-owned parcels last Tuesday, with explorers mostly focused on portions of the Utica and Collingwood shales on the Lower Peninsula, netted the state $178 million in bonus payments, which exceeded projections and broke the record for previous auctions.

An auction of natural gas and oil leases on Michigan-owned parcels last Tuesday, with explorers mostly focused on portions of the Utica and Collingwood shales on the Lower Peninsula, netted the state $178 million in bonus payments, which exceeded projections and broke the record for previous auctions.