# Notice on Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sales
**AGENCY:**
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Interior.
**ACTION:**
List of Restricted Joint Bidders.
**SUMMARY:**
Pursuant to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) regulatory restrictions on joint bidding, the Director of the BOEM is publishing a List of Restricted Joint Bidders. Each entity within one of the following groups is restricted from bidding with any entity in any of the other following groups at Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas lease sales to be held during the bidding period November 1, 2017, through April 30, 2018.
**DATES:**
This List of Restricted Joint Bidders will cover the period November 1, 2017, through April 30, 2018, and replace the prior list published on April 28, 2017 (82 FR 19750), which covered the period of May 1, 2017, through October 31, 2017.
**Group I**
BP America Production Company
BP Exploration & Production Inc.
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.
**Group II**
Chevron Corporation
Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
Chevron Midcontinent, L.P.
Unocal Corporation
Union Oil Company of California
Pure Partners, L.P.
**Group III**
Eni Petroleum Co. Inc.
Eni Petroleum US LLC
Eni Oil US LLC
Eni Marketing Inc.
Eni BB Petroleum Inc.
Eni US Operating Co. Inc.
Eni BB Pipeline LLC
**Group IV**
Exxon Mobil Corporation
ExxonMobil Exploration Company
**Group V**
Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.
Petrobras America Inc.
**Group VI**
Shell Oil Company
Shell Offshore Inc.
SWEPI LP
Shell Frontier Oil & Gas Inc.
SOI Finance Inc.
Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc.
**Group VII**
Statoil ASA
Statoil Gulf of Mexico LLC
Statoil USA E&P Inc.
Statoil Gulf Properties Inc.
**Group VIII**
Total E&P USA, Inc.
**Authority:**
30 CFR 556.511-556.515.
Dated: November 8, 2017.
Walter D. Cruickshank,
Acting Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.