OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF OIL AND GAS LEASING HISTORY

                 (Quarterly as of  03/31/95) (#50031)

                                                                 

        

                Alaska  Atlantic       GOM   Pacific     Total

Sales Held         17*       10*        72       11*      107*

Blocks Offered  24,659     9,160   160,526     1,887  196,232

Leases Issued    1,562       410    12,002       470   14,444

Active Leases       93        53     5,007        85    5,238

Active Acres Leased 
  (millions)      0.45      0.30     25.37      0.43    26.55

Wells drilled       82        51    31,502     1,099   32,734



  The responsibility for administering the Atlantic leases now
rests with the Gulf of Mexico Region. 

  *  Note that the reoffering Sale RS-2, held on August 5, 1982,
offered oil and gas tracts on the Alaska, Atlantic, and Pacific
OCS and is recorded as a separate sale within each of those
Regions.  However, Sale RS-2 is considered a single sale in the
overall statistical summary on OCS leasing. 

                              -MMS-
Subject: PR-4/17/95 Leasing History/OCS Oil & Gas History as of
3/31/95 (#50031)