Current Licensing Rounds

19 Mar 2024

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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.

Bid Rounds Recently Expired

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

RegionBid Round NameOpenedClosed
Egypt Egypt 2023 International Bid Round 25-Sep-2023 25-Feb-2024
Angola Angola Bid 2023 06-Sep-2023 15-Nov-2023
Israel Israel Fourth Offshore Bid Round 13-Dec-2022 30-Jun-2023

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.