The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management today announced that the agency will hold Cook Inlet Lease Sale 244 in Anchorage, AK on Wednesday, June 21.  The lease blocks being offered are located in federal waters stretching roughly from Kalgin Island in the north to Augustine Island in the south.  BOEM estimates that estimated resource potential of the lease sale is 215 million barrels of oil and 571 billion cubic feet of natural gas.