Recent U.S. offshore oil and gas lease bidding: A progress report

Philip Haile, Kenneth Hendricks and Robert Porter

International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2010, vol. 28, issue 4, 390-396

Abstract: We describe an ongoing research project, in which we examine recent trends in bidding for offshore oil and gas leases, and the exploration and development of leases after they are sold. We review empirical findings regarding bidder participation and bidding for the period 1954 through 1982. In 1983, the MMS adopted Area Wide Leasing (AWL), which dramatically changed the bidding environment. We provide an initial analysis of the post-1982 data, documenting a number of significant changes in behavior and outcomes. Bidding has been much less aggressive recently in comparison with the early years of the leasing program, in terms of both the number of bids submitted and the level of the submitted bids. This descriptive evidence leads to a number of questions, and we discuss a number of changes in the bidding environment since 1982, which may offer partial explanations of the observed changes.

Keywords: Auctions; Bidding; Offshore; oil; and; gas; leases (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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