CONTACT: Commissioner’s Office Elizabeth Bluemink, Communications Coordinator, 269-8434, elizabeth.bluemink@alaska.gov   North Slope oil and gas lease sale nets significant number of bids       (Anchorage, AK) – The Division of Oil and Gas has received a substantial number of bids for its annual oil and gas lease offering for the Beaufort Sea, the North Slope and the North Slope Foothills.  The bids will be opened at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, December 7, 2011, in Kahtnu Room 1 of the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center, at 600 West 7th Avenue in downtown [...]