Bid Rounds And Blocks

13 May 2021

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.

Map Feeds

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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
Somalia	Somalia Licensing Round - 2020	07-Aug-2020	12-Mar-2021
Angola	Angola - 2020 Onshore Round	01-Oct-2020	10-Mar-2021
Cuba	CUPET - 1st Offshore Licensing Round - 2019	04-Jun-2019	28-Feb-2021
Liberia	Liberia 4th offshore Round - 2020	10-Apr-2020	28-Feb-2021
Madagascar	Madagascar 2018/2019 Licensing Round	07-Nov-2018	01-Jan-2021
Gabon	Gabon 12th Round - 2018/2019	07-Nov-2018	31-Dec-2020
Georgia	Georgia Offshore Round - 2020	27-Apr-2020	22-Dec-2020
Bosnia Herzegovina	1st Licensing Round - 2020 FMERI Bosnia & Herzegovina	07-Jan-2020	05-Dec-2020
Malaysia	Petronas MPM - Exploration - 2020 - Malaysia	30-Oct-2019	30-Nov-2020
Uruguay	ANCAP - Open Uruguay Round - 2019/2020	02-May-2019	30-Nov-2020
New Zealand	New Zealand - 2019 Block Offer	27-Jul-2020	04-Nov-2020
Newfoundland and Labrador	Canada - Newfoundland & Labrador Offshore Round - 2020	11-Jun-2020	04-Nov-2020
Colombia	Colombia - PPAA 2020 3rd Round	01-Jul-2020	30-Oct-2020
Lebanon	LPA - Second Offshore Licensing Round - 2019	01-Jul-2019	30-Oct-2020
Senegal	Senegal Licensing Round - 2020	31-Jan-2020	30-Sep-2020
Israel	Israel - 3rd Round, Offshore - 2020	23-Jun-2020	23-Sep-2020
India	OALP-V Bid Round - 2020 - DGH	14-Jan-2020	30-Jun-2020
Trinidad & Tobago	2020 Deep Water Competitive Bid Round - Nominations	02-Mar-2020	30-Jun-2020

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.