Mesa Limited Partnership would like to buy...

Mesa Limited Partnership would like to buy two of the eight oil and gas property packages that Houston-based Tenneco Inc. has offered for sale, Mesa general partner T. Boone Pickens Jr. said in an interview. Pickens said Mesa, an Amarillo, Tex.-based oil and gas firm, is interested in the properties, which includes its Hugoton gas field reserves and its Rocky Mountain division. Pickens, however, declined to identify how much Mesa was willing to bid for the two Tenneco property packages. Analysts said the sale could raise as much as $8 billion.