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Show Bidding on leases active in Grand-Emery-Uintah The U.S. Bureau of and Management Tuesday Tues-day received for oil and ;as leases on 17 parcels of ind in Emery, Grand and Jintah counties a total of 459,884.55 in apparent igh bids, i Bids were received from 15 individuals and companies, comp-anies, according to Paul L Howard, BLM state director direc-tor in Utah. Parcels offered varied in size from 50 to 594.20 acres. They are within the known geologic structures of the Bar X, Bittercreek, Coyote Basin, Grassy Creek and Westwater fields and an undefined field. The highest bid received receiv-ed was $132,820.20 from Palmer Oil and Gas Company of Billings, Montana. They bid $267.26 for a lease on 496.97 acres in the Bar X field of Grand County. However, Belco Petroleum Petrol-eum Company of Lake-wood, Lake-wood, Colorado submitted the highest per acre bid: $280.79 per acre for 80 acres in the Bitter Creek field of Uintah County, for a total bid of $22,463.20. The apparent high bidders bid-ders at Tuesday's oil and gas lease offering were as follows: Parcel 1, 594.20 acres of the Grassy Creek field, Emery County, B.K. Se-ely, Se-ely, Jr., 4068 Parkview Drive, Salt Lake City, $8.90 per acre, $5,288.38. Parcel 2, 80.00 acres of the Grassy Creek field, Emery County, B.K. Seely Jr., $8.90 per acre. $712.00. Parcel 3, 240.00 acres' of an undefined field, Uintah County, Jack J. Grynberg, Denver, Colorado. $2.37 per acre, $568.80. Parcel 4, 80.00 acres of the Bitter Creek field, Uintah County, Belco Petroleum Company, Lakewood, Colorado, 280.79 per acre, $22,463.20. Parcel 5, 322.46 acres of the Bitter Creek field, Uintah county, Belco Petroleum Pet-roleum Company, $265.77 per acre, $85,700.19. Parcel 6, 524.45 acres of the Bitter Creek field, Uintah County, Belco Petroleum Pet-roleum Company, $165.79 per acre, $86,948.57. Parcel 7, deleted from offering. Parcel 8, 160.00 acres of the Westwater field, Grand County Palmer Oil & Gas Company, Billings, Montana, $109.78 per acre, $17,564.80. Parcel 9, 120.00 acres of the Westwater field, Grand County, Palmer Oil & Gas Company, $135.61 per acre. $16,273.20. Parcel 10, 40.00 acres of the Westwater field, Grand County, Grace Petroleum Company, Denver, Colorado, $75.00 per acre. $3,000.00. Parcel 11, 212.43 acres of the Westwater field, Grand County, James Clark, Fowler, California, $11.00 per acre, $2,343.00. Parcel 12, 240.00 acres of the Westwater field, Grand County, Palmer Oil & Gas Company, $27.27 per acre. $6,544.80. Parcel 13, 120.00 acres of the Westwater field, Grand County, A. Lans-dale, Lans-dale, Garden Grove, California, Cal-ifornia, $60.27 per acre, $7,232.40. Parcel 14, 360.28 acres of the Coyote Basin field, Uintah County, Husky Oil, Denver, Colorado, $6.77 per acre, $2,439.10. Parcel 15, 360.24 acres of the Coyote Basin field, Uintah County, Husky Oil, $6.77 per acre, $2,438.82. Parcel 16, 496.97 acres of the Bar X field, Grand County, Palmer Oil & Gas Company, $267.26 "per acre. $132,820.20. Parcel 17, 335.45 acres of the Bar X field, Grand County, Palmer Oil & Gas Company, $186.09 per acre, $62,423.89. Parcel 18, 320.00 acres of the Bar X field, Grand County, Natural Gas Corporation Cor-poration of Calif., San Francisco, Calif., $16.01 per acre, $5,123.20. |