North Slope Lease Sale Coming (Anchorage, AK) – The Department of Natural Resources will hold its annual sale of oil and gas lease tracts on the North Slope and in the North Slope Foothills and Beaufort Sea at 9 a.m. on Nov. 6 at the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center in Anchorage. The lease sale area encompasses approximately 14 million acres. As previously announced, 11 tracts in the North Slope and Beaufort Sea areas will be deferred from this sale for the purpose of long-term testing of methane hydrate production [...]