"The State of Alaska and the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management both held Alaska oil and gas lease sales Dec. 7 in Anchorage, with apparent high bids of $24,606,947 from a combination of new entrants and established players.
BLM’s National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska sale, the smallest of the sales, had 20 bids on 17 tracts by three bidders, for a total of apparent...