# Notice on Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Lease Sales
**AGENCY:**
Minerals Management Service, Interior.
**ACTION:**
List of restricted joint bidders.
**SUMMARY:**
Pursuant to the authority vested in the Director of the MMS by the joint bidding provisions of 30 CFR 256.41, each entity within one of the following groups shall be restricted from bidding with any entity in any other of the following groups at OCS oil and gas lease sales to be held during the bidding period November 1, 2003, through April 30, 2004. The List of Restricted Joint Bidders published April 28, 2003, in the *Federal Register* at 68 FR 81 covered the period May 1, 2003, through October 31, 2003.
Group I.
Exxon Mobil Corporation
ExxonMobil Exploration Company
Group II.
Shell Oil Company
Shell Offshore Inc.
SWEPI LP
Shell Frontier Oil & Gas Inc.
Shell Consolidated Energy Resources Inc.
Shell Land & Energy Company
Shell Onshore Ventures Inc.
Shell Offshore Properties and Capital II, Inc.
Shell Rocky Mountain Production LLC
Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc.
Group III.
BP American Production Company
BP Exploration & Production Inc.
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.
Group IV.
TOTAL E&P USA, Inc.
Group V.
ChevronTexaco Corporation
Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
Texaco Inc.
Texaco Exploration and Production Inc.
Dated: September 24, 2003.
Walter D. Cruickshank,
Acting Director, Minerals Management Service.