West North Slope Oil Lease Sale

I wonder if DW has his eyes set on a bit more real estate.

December oil lease sale scheduled for federal lands in Arctic Alaska
Yereth Rosen, Arctic Today, November 9, 2018

About 2.85 million acres of federal territory in Arctic Alaska will be offered next month for oil and gas exploration, officials announced in a Federal Register notice. The annual oil and gas lease sale for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, a 23 million-acre swath of land on the western side of Alaska’s North Slope, will be held on Dec. 12, the Bureau of Land Management said in the notice. The lease sale will put 254 tracts on the auction block, the notice said. That’s much less land than was offered in last year’s NPR-A lease sale. That sale offered 900 tracts spread over 10.3 million acres, the most ever put up for action in the reserve’s history. Despite the vast amount of land offered, the 2017 lease sale attracted only seven bids.