Document Headings

                    Document headings vary by document type but may contain                    the following:                  
                -                       the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document                    
                -                       the number of the CFR title and the number of each part                      the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly                      related to                    
                -                       the agency docket number / agency internal file number                    
                -                       the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in                      the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory                      Actions                    

                    See the                                          Document Drafting Handbook                                        for more details.                  

###### Department of the Interior

###### Minerals Management Service

# AGENCY:

Minerals Management Service, Interior.

# ACTION:

List of Restricted Joint Bidders.

# SUMMARY:

                        Pursuant to the authority vested in the Director of the Minerals Management Service by the joint bidding provisions of 30 CFR 256.41, each entity within one of the following groups shall be restricted from bidding with any entity in any other of the following groups at Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas lease sales to be held during the bidding period May 1, 2010, through October 31, 2010. The List of Restricted Joint Bidders published in the                         **Federal Register**                         on November 23, 2009, covered the period November 1, 2009, through April 30, 2010.                    

*Group I.*                         Exxon Mobil Corporation, ExxonMobil Exploration Company.                    

*Group II.*                         Shell Oil Company, Shell Offshore Inc., SWEPI LP, Shell Frontier Oil & Gas Inc., Shell Onshore Ventures Inc., SOI Finance Inc., Shell Rocky Mountain Production LLC, Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc.                    

*Group III.*                         BP America Production Company, BP Exploration & Production Inc., BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.                    

*Group IV.*                         Chevron Corporation, Chevron U.S.A. Inc., Chevron Midcontinent, L.P., Unocal Corporation, Union Oil Company of California, Pure Partners, L.P.                    

*Group V.*                         ConocoPhillips Company, ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc., ConocoPhillips Petroleum Company, Phillips Pt. Arguello Production Company, Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Company L.P., Burlington Resources Offshore Inc., The Louisiana Land and Exploration Company, Inexco Oil Company.                    

*Group VI.*                         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 VII.*                         Petrobras America Inc., Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.                    

*Group VIII.*                         StatoilHydro ASA, Statoil Gulf of Mexico LLC, StatoilHydro USA E&P, Inc., StatoilHydro Gulf Properties Inc.                    

Dated: April 12, 2010.

S. Elizabeth Birnbaum,

Director, Minerals Management Service.

[FR Doc. 2010-10692 Filed 5-5-10; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310-MR-P