Wyoming Upcoming Oil and Gas Lease Sales

The Oil & Gas Lease Sales map below shows parcels proposed to be offered for lease by the Bureau of Land Management. This interactive map shows current and upcoming lease sales and their conflicts with wildlife and natural areas. More information on upcoming leases is shown below the map.

Advice on how to use the map: Zoom in for more detail. Select the layer list icon in the upper left, expand and turn on conservation_conflicts and other layers and sublayers. Click on parcels or conservation conflict areas for more information. Scroll through pop-ups for multiple overlapping areas by clicking on the right triangle/arrow.

March (Q1) 2025 Lease Sale

Scoping (posted 7/18/2024)

  • Scoping comments on the Preliminary Parcel List are due Monday, August 19, 2024. Comments must be submitted through the links provided to the electronic comment form under the Participate Now or Documents section of the 2025 First Quarter Competitive Oil & Gas Lease Sale ePlanning page. Additional information about the sale is available in the Announcement and on the BLM Wyoming Oil and Gas Lease Sales web site.
  • According to the website and documents, BLM is proposing to offer 13 parcels / 2,443.11 acres. The proposed parcels are in Converse County in the Casper Field Office.
  • Conflicts identified include
    • Overlaps with habitat for greater sage-grouse (all 4 parcels are in general habitat) and low potential for development.
    • All four parcels are in the Proposed Action are in areas identified in Bureau of Land Management published Reasonable Foreseeable Development Scenario Documents as having low potential for oil and gas development. However, all parcels are within 2 miles of a producing well except for a portion of parcel WY-2025-03-1926 which is between 2 and 3 miles from a producing well.
  • Lease Sale Parcels Scoping Google Earth kmz | zipped shapefile
  • Lease Sale Parcels Scoping ABI Screen, a spreadsheet showing conflicts between the proposed parcels and important wildlife, wilderness and other resource values.

December (Q4) 2024 Lease Sale

Draft Environmental Assessment (posted 7/9/2024)

  • Comments on the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) are due Thursday, August 8, 2024. Comments must be submitted through the links provided to the electronic comment form under the Participate Now or Documents section of the 2024 Fourth Quarter Competitive Oil & Gas Lease Sale ePlanning page. Additional information about the sale is available in the Announcement and on the BLM Wyoming Oil and Gas Lease Sales web site.
  • According to the website and documents, BLM is proposing to either offer 13 parcels / 6,604.85 acres in the Proposed Action (Alternative 2) or 9 parcels / 6,361.79 acres in the Modified Proposed Action (Alternative 3). The proposed parcels are in Eastern and Southern Wyoming in Campbell, Carbon, Converse, Lincoln, and Niobrara Counties in the Buffalo, Casper, Newcastle, Rawlins, and Rock Springs Field Offices.
  • Conflicts identified include overlaps with:
    • Habitat for greater sage-grouse (4 parcels in the Proposed Action (Alternative 2) are in priority habitat. The rest of the parcels in the Proposed Action and all of the parcels in the Modified Proposed Action (Alternative 3) are in general habitat)
    • Crucial winter habitat for mule deer
    • Big game migration routes (according to data associated with Ungulate Migrations in the Western United States Volume 1 and Volume 2 published by USGS, parcel WY-2024-12-1888 overlaps migration routes for mule deer and pronghorn)
    • Low potential for development (In the Proposed Action, five parcels, WY-2024-12-1885, 1886, 1895, 1899, and 1902, are in areas identified in Bureau of Land Management published Reasonable Foreseeable Development Scenario Documents as having low potential for oil and gas development and are not near existing development – more than 2 miles from any producing wells. Two of those parcels, 1899, and 1902 are also included in the Modified Proposed Action)
  • Lease Sale Parcels Draft EA Proposed Action (Alternative 2) Google Earth kmz
  • Lease Sale Parcels Draft EA Modified Proposed Action (Alternative 3) Google Earth kmz
  • Lease Sale Parcels Draft EA (both alternatives) zipped shapefile
  • Lease Sale Parcels Draft EA Proposed Action (Alternative 2) ABI Screen, a spreadsheet showing conflicts between the proposed parcels and important wildlife, wilderness and other resource values.
  • Lease Sale Parcels Draft EA Modified Proposed Action (Alternative 3) ABI Screen

Scoping (posted 3/10/2024)

September (Q3) 2024 Lease Sale

Sale Notice (posted 7/26/2024)

  • Protests of the parcels and leasing conditions proposed in the Sale Notice are due Monday, August 26, 2024. There is important information on how to protest in the Sale Notice with additional information on the 2024 Third Quarter Competitive Oil & Gas Lease Sale ePlanning page. Additional information about the sale is available in the Announcement and on the BLM Wyoming Oil and Gas Lease Sales web site.
  • According to the website and documents, BLM is proposing to offer 4 parcels / 159 acres in Northeast Wyoming. The parcels are in Campbell, Crook, Fremont, and Niobrara Counties in the Buffalo, Lander, and Newcastle Field Offices.
  • Conflicts identified include overlaps with:
    • Habitat for greater sage-grouse (all parcels are in general habitat)
    • Crucial winter habitat for pronghorn
  • All parcels are either in areas identified by the Bureau of Land Management as having moderate or high potential for oil and gas development or are within 2 miles of one or more producing wells.
  • Lease Sale Parcels Sale Notice Google Earth kmz | zipped shapefile
  • Lease Sale Parcels Sale Notice ABI Screen, a spreadsheet showing conflicts between the proposed parcels and important wildlife, wilderness and other resource values.

Draft Environmental Assessment (posted 5/22/2024)

Scoping (posted 1/16/2024)

Resources

*The Research Map doesn’t work in all web browsers. I was able to successfully access the map in the Firefox browser on a PC on 6/17/2024.