Current Licensing Rounds

05 Dec 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
Malaysia MBR 2024 23-Jan-2024 15-Oct-2024
Ukraine Ukraine Oil and Gas Licences Auction 2024 26-Jun-2024 24-Sep-2024
Bangladesh Bangladesh Offshore Bidding Round 2024 09-Mar-2024 09-Sep-2024
Bangsamoro (BARMM), Philippines 1st BARMM Conventional Energy Bid Round 26-Feb-2024 27-Aug-2024
Philippines 2024 Philippine Energy Bid Round 26-Feb-2024 27-Aug-2024
Lebanon Lebanon Third Offshore Licensing Round 27-Dec-2023 02-Jul-2024
Suriname Suriname Shallow Offshore Bid Round 2023-2024 07-Nov-2023 31-May-2024
Trinidad & Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 2023 Shallow Water Competitive Bid Round 03-Oct-2023 27-May-2024
Egypt Egypt 2023 International Bid Round 25-Sep-2023 25-Feb-2024

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.