Bid Rounds And Blocks

23 Aug 2017

Global Block Coverage, Current Bid Rounds, and Advisers

Lynx maintains an expansive database of hydrocarbon/petroleum exploration licensing rounds and blocks covering prospective areas around the globe. We use these data in our service work and in development of our GIS Exploration Advisers.

This map shows current licensing rounds with our regional Lynx Exploration Advisers and selected block coverage. The Lynx Exploration Advisers provide an ideal introduction to the petroleum geology and exploration potential of a region for New Ventures - contact us to find out more.

You can download shapefiles of the blocks on offer for many areas by clicking on blocks on the map.

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The block boundaries and licensing round opening and closing dates contained in these map feeds and displayed on this map are provided for informational purposes only, and Lynx makes no claims about the accuracy of the data. For definitive details, contact the relevant Licensing Authority.

The depiction and use of boundaries and geographic names on these maps do not imply endorsement or acceptance by Lynx Information Systems

Bid Rounds Recently Expired

These bid rounds have closed within the last year.
We still have downloads available - click the links.

Region	Bid Round Name	Opened	Closed
Mexico	CNH-R02-L02-2016	24-Aug-2016	12-Jul-2017
Mexico	CNH-R02-L03-2016	15-Nov-2016	12-Jul-2017
Georgia	Georgia Open International Tender 2017	03-Apr-2017	22-May-2017
Equatorial Guinea	Equatorial Guinea 2016 Licensing Round	06-Jun-2016	28-Apr-2017
Mexico	CNH-R02-L01-2016	01-Aug-2016	07-Apr-2017
Lebanon	Lebanon First Licensing Round	02-Feb-2017	31-Mar-2017
Australia	Australia 2016 Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release. Round 2.	04-Aug-2016	23-Mar-2017
Egypt	GANOPE 2016	01-Aug-2016	15-Feb-2017
Oman	Oman Bid Round 2016	12-Oct-2016	15-Feb-2017
Australia	Australia 2016 Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release. Cash Areas.	04-Aug-2016	02-Feb-2017
Australia	Australia 2016 Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release. Round 1.	04-Aug-2016	08-Dec-2016
Indonesia	UnConventional Oil and Gas Bidding First Round 2016. Regular Tender	01-Jun-2016	17-Nov-2016
Newfoundland and Labrador	NL16-CFB01 - Eastern Newfoundland Region	07-Apr-2016	09-Nov-2016
Newfoundland and Labrador	NL16-CFB02 - Jeanne dArc Region	07-Apr-2016	09-Nov-2016
Indonesia	Conventional Oil and Gas Bidding First Round 2016. Regular Tender	01-Jun-2016	01-Oct-2016
New Zealand	New Zealand 2016	21-Mar-2016	07-Sep-2016
Norway	NORWEGIAN APA 2016	17-Mar-2016	06-Sep-2016
Egypt	EGPC 2016	15-May-2016	31-Aug-2016

Terms of use

The Active Bid Rounds map displayed on this page, the map feeds explicitly and implicitly published here, and the shapefile downloads linked from this page are free to use for hydrocarbon exploration and academic purposes. You may not use this data to create derived works for profit.