Bid Rounds And Blocks

01 Apr 2020

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.

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Bid Rounds Recently Expired

These bid rounds have closed within the last year.
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Region	Bid Round Name	Opened	Closed
Australia	2019 Offshore Acreage Release - Australia	31-Jul-2019	05-Mar-2020
Sierra Leone	Re-launch of the 4th Round (Direct & Open Tenders) - Sierra Leone - 2019	21-May-2019	28-Feb-2020
Suriname	Open Door Onshore 2019	01-Jan-2019	31-Dec-2019
Dominican Republic	1st Licensing Round of the Dominican Republic - 2019	10-Jul-2019	27-Nov-2019
Uganda	Second Licensing Round of Uganda	22-May-2019	22-Nov-2019
Angola	2019 Licensing Round for new Offshore Oil Concessions	11-Sep-2019	12-Nov-2019
Faroe Islands	5th Round	11-Jul-2019	12-Nov-2019
Brazil	Pre-Salt 6th Production Sharing Bidding Round - 2019	30-Jul-2019	07-Nov-2019
Somalia	Offshore Somalia 2019	07-Feb-2019	07-Nov-2019
Newfoundland and Labrador	Labrador & Newfoundland 2019	03-Apr-2019	06-Nov-2019
Colombia	2019 ANH Colombia PPAA 2nd Round Blocks	23-Sep-2019	31-Oct-2019
India	OALP-IV Bid Round - 2019 - DGH	27-Aug-2019	31-Oct-2019
Indonesia	3rd Indonesian Petroleum Bidding Round 2019 - MIGAS	26-Jul-2019	25-Oct-2019
Brazil	16th Oil & Gas Licensing Round - ANP Brasil - 2019	25-Mar-2019	10-Oct-2019
Equatorial Guinea	2019 Oil & Gas Licensing Round of Equatorial Guinea	03-Nov-2019	27-Sep-2019
Egypt	Ganope - Offshore Red Sea International Bid Round	10-Mar-2019	15-Sep-2019
Croatia	3rd Onshore Bidding Round - Dinarides	08-Feb-2019	10-Sep-2019
Ukraine	Ukraine 2018 License Round	14-Jun-2018	28-Aug-2019
Sierra Leone	Sierra Leone Fourth Licensing Round	15-Jan-2018	20-Aug-2019
Israel	Israel- 2nd Round - 2018/2019	04-Nov-2018	12-Aug-2019
Indonesia	2nd Indonesian Petroleum Bidding Round 2019 - MIGAS	08-Nov-2019	05-Aug-2019
Congo (Brazzaville)	Congo Licence Round Phase II 2018 - 2019	07-May-2018	23-Jul-2019
Sri Lanka	M1 & C1 Offshore licensing Round - 2019	17-May-2019	15-Jul-2019
Croatia	2nd Onshore Bid Round - Croatia 2018/2019	02-Nov-2018	28-Jun-2019
Madagascar	Madagascar 2018/2019 Licensing Round	07-Nov-2018	01-Jun-2019
Oman	Oman Licensing Round 2019	17-Feb-2019	30-May-2019
Ghana	Ghana - 1st O&G Licensing Round - 2018	15-Oct-2018	21-May-2019
Trinidad & Tobago	Trinidad & Tobago 2018 Shallow Bid Round	08-Nov-2018	20-May-2019
Nova Scotia	C-NSOPB - NS18 Parcels	10-Dec-2018	08-May-2019
Sri Lanka	4th Offshore Licensing Round 2019 - M2	01-Feb-2019	07-May-2019
Ukraine	2nd International Oil & Gas Licensing Round - Ukraine 2019 Auction	29-Jan-2019	01-May-2019
Argentina	Ronda 1 - Offshore Argentina	01-Oct-2018	16-Apr-2019
India	OALP Bid Round-II	07-Jan-2019	10-Apr-2019
India	OALP Bid Round-III 2019	10-Feb-2019	10-Apr-2019

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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.