The US government on Wednesday put more than 38 million acres (about 15 million hectares) of tracts in the central Gulf of Mexico up for bid to offshore energy producers, local media reported.Fifty-two oil and gas companies submitted 407 bids on 320 blocks, with the offers totaling 1.6 billion US dollars, in a lease sale that underscored a revival of oil and gas drilling in the region and ...
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