[thackney]

It was from the December Sale.

EOG was not one of the buyers of leases.

http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/ut/lands_and_minerals/oil_and_gas/december_2008.Par.41376.File.dat/SALE%20RESULTS.pdf

[thackney]

I should have included this:

Administration scraps sale of drilling leases in Utah
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6246512.html

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he’s scrapping the lease of dozens of parcels of federal land for oil and gas drilling in Utah’s redrock country.

Salazar says the Bush administration rushed an auction in December of some of the country’s most precious landscapes around national parks and the wild Green River.

[MeanWestTexan]

Maybe, maybe not.

I typicaly buy leases with a strawma. . . . landman, so you can never tell who is buying.

Indeed, sometimes you buy with 3 or 4 landmen (who hopefully don’t bid against each other), so people don’t know you’re putting a package togehter, or bid the process up because they know you’re on to something.