Monthly Petroleum and Natural Gas sale results

It means the totals in all three monthly sales this calendar year have exceeded the comparable totals posted last year.

The overall 2012 three month total is now past the 80 million dollar mark, and that's more than three times the total for the same period in 2011, when it was less than 24 million.

Of the 50 parcels offered yesterday, 34 of them, covering just over 17,000 hectares, were purchased and that resulted in a per hectare price of five thousand $402,000.

The next sale will be held on April 25th.