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

Scoping (posted 9/27/2024)

  • Scoping comments on the Preliminary Parcel List are due Monday, October 28, 2024. 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 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 29 parcels / 24,728.91 acres. The proposed parcels are in Campbell, Converse, Johnson, Natrona, and Sweetwater Counties in the Buffalo, Casper, Newcastle, and Rawlings Field Offices in eastern and central Wyoming.
  • Conflicts identified include
    • Overlaps with habitat for greater sage-grouse (2 parcels are in priority habitat (1 fully and 1 partially) and the remaining parcels and portions of parcels 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
    • Areas managed for historic trails
    • Private land with a conservation easement
    • Low potential for development: portions of 11 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, -2063, -2140, -2141, -2042, -2142, -2144, 2145, and -7382).
  • 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.

March (Q1) 2025 Lease Sale

Draft Environmental Analysis (posted 7/18/2024)

  • Comments on the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) are due Monday, November 4, 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 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 Draft EA Google Earth kmz | zipped shapefile
  • Lease Sale Parcels Draft EA ABI Screen, a spreadsheet showing conflicts between the proposed parcels and important wildlife, wilderness and other resource values.

Scoping (posted 7/18/2024)

December 10, (Q4) 2024 Lease Sale

Sale Notice (posted 9/16/2024)

  • On October 17, the Wyoming Bureau of Land Management announced that the protest period has been extended 15 days to October 31, 2024 (it was originally scheduled to end October 16). The only other change listed in Amendment 1 (pdf document) is that the date of the sale has been moved to December 10 (it was originally scheduled to be held on December 3).
  • Protests to the Sale Notice and Environmental Assessment (pdf documents) for the December 10, 2024 lease sale are due Thursday, October 31, 2024 by 4:00 pm MDT. Protests may 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. There is important information about how to protest in the Sale Notice (pdf document, page 9 – 10). 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 8 parcels / 4,641.95 acres. 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 (all of the parcels 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 WYWY106391335 overlaps migration routes for mule deer and pronghorn)
    • Low potential for development (Two parcels, WYWY106391328, and WYWY106391334, 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)
  • 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 7/9/2024)

  • 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
  • Lease Sale Parcels Draft EA Modified Proposed Action (Alternative 3) ABI Screen

Scoping (posted 3/10/2024)

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.