Announcing 136 blocks
The consultation deadline for the 25th licensing round is set for August 26th 2020, while the application deadline is set for early next year and is expected to be awarded…
Licensing round
Norway kicks off APA 2020 – 36 new blocks for public consultation
The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has kickstarted Norway’s annual licensing round – Awards in Predefined Areas (APA), in a press release. The first step is a public consultancy on…
OGA expects 32nd Offshore Licensing Round awards in summer 2020
The Oil and gas authorities of the UK (OGA) announced that they expect awards in the 32nd Offshore Licensing Round will be announced in summer 2020. Earlier, these awards were…
Faroese shelf open for Out-of-round bids
The Geological Survey of the Faroe Islands, Jardfeingi, quietly opened up for Out-of-round bids, after a lack of interest from the oil and gas exploration companies following the 5th licensing…
Offers given in APA 2019
[UPDATED with comments from the Seismic industry] The new petroleum and energy minister of Norway, Sylvi Listhaug, announced today the results of the evaluation of the applications from 33 companies…
Still some interest in exploring offshore Denmark
The deadline of the 8th Danish Licensing Round for areas for oil and gas exploration and production was today 1st of February 2019. The Danish Energy Agency announced it has…
Buchan Area Round is open
It is now possible for oil and gas companies on the UKCS to submit applications to obtain exploration licenses in the Greater Buchan Area. The OGA has officially opened the…
Data release for Buchan License Round
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) wants to revitalise exploration of oil and gas in the UK Continental Shelf by making more data publicly available. Today the OGA releases the…
31st round is closed
Altogether 35 companies, ranging from multinationals to microbusinesses, applied. The 31st Licensing Round, which closed on Wednesday 7th November, offered significant opportunities to acquire acreage across the UKCS’s extensive frontier…
Success with 3D coverage
While the oil companies got all the attention, TGS made the allocation of numerous blocks in the Barents Sea possible through several MC3D surveys.