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Archive Home > 2006 > September > 29 > Oil and gas leases up for auction

Oil and gas leases up for auction

Officials look to Eastern Oregon as potential source of mineral wealth

By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
September 29, 2006

For the first time in more than 20 years, the Oregon Department of State Lands is holding an auction for oil and gas leases, in this case for parcels of land in northeast Malheur County.

The department owns or manages about 4 million acres of mineral rights, which are rights to materials under....

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