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.

June (Q2) 2025 Lease Sale

Draft Environmental Assessment (posted 12/18/2024)

  • Scoping comments on the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) are due Friday, January 17, 2025. Comments must be submitted through the links provided to the electronic comment form under the Participate Now or Documents section of the 2025 Second Quarter Competitive Oil & Gas Lease Sale ePlanning page. Additional information is available on the BLM Wyoming Oil and Gas Lease Sales web site.
  • According to the website and documents, BLM is proposing to offer either 29 parcels / 22,964.75 acres (Alternative 2 – Proposed Action) or 18 parcels / 11,692.54 acres (Alternative 3 – Modified Proposed Action). The proposed parcels (Proposed Action) are in Campbell, Converse, Johnson, Natrona, Niobrara, and Sweetwater Counties in the Buffalo, Casper, Newcastle, Rawlings, and Rock Springs Field Offices in eastern and central Wyoming.
  • Conflicts identified include
    • Overlaps with habitat for greater sage-grouse. In Alternative 2 (Proposed Action), 2 parcels are in priority habitat (1 fully and 1 partially). The remaining parcels and portions of parcels in Alternative 2 and all parcels in Alternative 3 (Modified Proposed Action) are in general habitat
    • Crucial winter habitat for elk, mule deer, and pronghorn
    • Important habitat for black-tailed and white-tailed prairie dog including potential reintroduction sites for black-footed ferret
    • Kinney Rim Citizen’s Proposed Wilderness Area (Alternative 2 only)
    • Areas managed for historic trails
    • Private land with a conservation easement (Alternative 2 only)
    • Low potential for development:
      • In Alternative 2 (Proposed Action) portions of 7 parcels are in areas identified as having a low potential for development in BLM Reasonably Foreseeable Development Potential document and are more than 2 miles from producing wells (parcels WY-2025-06-1671, -1889, -2057, -2058, -2062, -7382, and -7387).
      • In Alternative 3 (Modified Proposed Action) portions of 4 parcels are in areas identified as having a low potential for development in BLM Reasonably Foreseeable Development Potential document and are more than 2 miles from producing wells (parcels WY-2025-06-1671, -1889, -2062, -7382).
      • Note that the list of parcels with low potential for development has changed since the scoping screen because the list above was created using well data from WY OGCC as of 12/3/2024.
  • Lease Sale Parcels Draft EA Alternative 2 (Proposed Action) Google Earth kmz | zipped shapefile
  • Lease Sale Parcels Draft EA Alternative 2 (Proposed Action) ABI Screen, a spreadsheet showing conflicts between the proposed parcels and important wildlife, wilderness and other resource values.
  • Lease Sale Parcels Draft EA Alternative 3 (Modified Proposed Action) Google Earth kmz | zipped shapefile
  • Lease Sale Parcels Draft EA Alternative 3 (Modified Proposed Action) ABI Screen, a spreadsheet showing conflicts between the proposed parcels and important wildlife, wilderness and other resource values.

Scoping (posted 9/27/2024)

March (Q1) 2025 Lease Sale

Sale Notice (posted 12/17/2024)

  • Protests on the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) and the Draft Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) are due Thursday, January 16, 2025. There is important information about how to protest in the Sale Notice. Additional information about the sale is available on the 2025 First Quarter Competitive Oil & Gas Lease Sale ePlanning site 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 / 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 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 Analysis (posted 7/18/2024)

Scoping (posted 7/18/2024)

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.