Bid Rounds And Blocks

19 Apr 2018

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
Brazil	Pre-Salt 4th Production Sharing Bidding Round	25-Jan-2018	13-Apr-2018
Uruguay	Uruguay Ronda 3	18-Sep-2017	06-Apr-2018
Indonesia	Conventional Oil & Gas Bidding First Round 2018. Direct Proposal	19-Feb-2018	04-Apr-2018
Indonesia	Unconventional Oil & Gas Bidding First Round 2018. Direct Proposal	19-Feb-2018	04-Apr-2018
Mexico	Round 3. Shallow Water CNH-R03-L01 / 2017	08-Dec-2017	27-Mar-2018
Greece	HHRM Offshore 2017 License Round - Greece	02-Dec-2017	05-Mar-2018
Faroe Islands	4th Faroese Licensing Round	17-May-2017	17-Feb-2018
Brazil	ANP Brasil - 15th Licensing Round	07-Dec-2017	07-Feb-2018
Mexico	Round 2. Deep Water CNH-R02-L04 / 2017	07-Dec-2017	31-Jan-2018
Colombia	Sinu San Jacinto 2017 - Colombia	05-Oct-2017	30-Jan-2018
Oman	Oman Licensing Round 2017	20-Sep-2017	31-Dec-2017
Greenland	Licensing Round Baffin Bay 2017	01-Apr-2017	15-Dec-2017
Nova Scotia	NS17-1	24-Jul-2017	14-Dec-2017
Norway	24th licensing round on the Norwegian Continental Shelf	13-Mar-2017	30-Nov-2017
Newfoundland and Labrador	NL17-CFB01 - Jeanne dArc Region	03-Apr-2017	08-Nov-2017
Egypt	GPC 2017	10-Sep-2017	12-Oct-2017
New Zealand	New Zealand 2017	22-Mar-2017	06-Sep-2017
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

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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.