Current

• Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil Sale  
  Solicitation No. MMS-RIKOIL-2008-UNR-001
  Sale Period: April 1, 2008 through June 30, 2008
  Offers Due: January 29, 2008 (10:00 am MT)
   
• Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil Sale  
  Solicitation No. M07PX14988
  Sale Period: October 1, 2007 through March 31, 2008
  Offers Due: July 31, 2007 (2:00pm MT)
• Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil Sale   
  Solicitation No.  M07PX14955
  Sale Period: July 1, 2007 through March 31, 2008
  Offers Due: May 1, 2007 (10 am MT)

Previous

• Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil Sale   
  Solicitation No.  M07PX14931
  Sale Period: Beginning April 1, 2007
  Offers Due: February 6, 2007 (10 am MT)
   
• Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil Sale   
  Solicitation No. 1435-02-07-RP-27856
  Sale Period: January 1, 2007 through June 30, 2007
  Offers Due: October 31, 2006  (2:00pm MT)
   
• Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil   
  Solicitation No. 1435-02-06-RP-27830
  Sale Period: October 1, 2006 through March 31, 2007
  Offers Due: August 7, 2006  (2:00pm MT)
   
• REVISED Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil   
  Solicitation No. 1435-02-06-RP-27781
  Sale Period: April 1, 2006 through September 30, 2006
  Offers Due: February 6, 2006  (2:00pm MT)
• Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil   
  Solicitation No. 1435-02-06-RP-27808
  Sale Period: July 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006
  Offers Due: May 10, 2006  (2:00pm MT)
   
• REVISED Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil   
  Solicitation No. 1435-02-06-RP-27780
  Sale Period: April 1, 2006 through June 30, 2006
  Offers Due: February 6, 2006  (2:00pm MT)
   
• Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil   
  Solicitation No. 1435-02-06-RP-25974
  Sale Period: December 1, 2005 through March 30, 2006
  Offers Due: October 11, 2005  (10:00am MT)
   
• Second Amended IFO as of July 25, 2005
   
• Summary of Amendments - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil  
  Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil   
  Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil  
  Solicitation No. 1435-02-05-RP-25925
  Sale Period: October 1, 2005 through March 31, 2006
  Offers Due: July 25,  2005  (2:00pm MT)
   
• Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil
  Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil  
  Solicitation No. 1435-02-05-RP-25919
  Sale Period: August through November 30, 2005
  Offers Due: June 8, 2005  (2:00pm MT)
   
• Revised Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil   
  Revised Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil  
  Solicitation No. 1435-02-05-RP-25919
  Sale Period: August through November 30, 2005
  Offers Due: June 13,  2005  (10:00am MT)
   
• Second Amended IFO as of January 31, 2005
• Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil   
  Solicitation No. 1435-02-05-RP-25851
  Sale Period: April through September 30, 2005
  Offers Due: February 7, 2005  (2:00pm MT)

• Revised Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil   
  Solicitation No. 1435-02-04-RP-40474
  Sale Period: October 2004 through March 2005
  Offers Due: August 9, 2004 (2:00pm MT)

• Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil   
  Solicitation No. 1435-02-03-RP-40444
  Sale Period: April through September 30, 2004
  Offers Due: January 26, 2004 (10:00am MT)

• Invitation for Offer - Unrestricted RIK Crude Oil   
  Solicitation No. 1435-02-03-RP-40407
  Sale Period: October 1, 2003 through March 31, 2004
  Offers Due: August 6, 2003 (10:00am MT)

• Revised Invitation for Offer -
  Unrestricted Royalty-in-Kind Crude Oil
  Solicitation No. 1435-02-01-RP-40350
  Sale Period: October 1, 2001 through March 31, 2002
  Offers Due: August 8, 2001

• Operators of Winning Bid Properties for Gulf Oil Sale No. 1 (GOSI).   November 2000 to April 2001.  Modified File: Added associated properties, oil was commingled with properties that were part of the RIK sale.

Dear Operator Letters:
Sample Dear Operator Letters - Individual letters to specific operators regarding specific RIK properties may vary slightly and are not posted to this site.  Letters to GOM operators are based on these samples.

• MMS GOM Oil RIK Project (GOS1) Crude oil in kind continuation (04/27/2001)

• MMS GOM Oil RIK Project (GOSI)
  November 2000 to April 2001 (09/28/2000)

• Announcement of Invitation for Bids on Oil from Federal Properties in the Gulf of Mexico (65 FR 51626--August 24, 2000)
  Summary:  MMS is announcing a public competitive offering of approximately 35,000 barrels per day of crude oil to be taken as royalty in kind from Federal properties in the Gulf of Mexico.  Solicitation Number
  1435-02-00-RP-40337. 

Background/Information Paper

• New Royalty-in-Kind Pilot for Federal Oil in the Gulf of Mexico