Licensing round June update
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Planned rounds Australia’s Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources did not announce the opening of the 2022 Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release at the annual Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association event, held in Brisbane, as expected. No further details are available. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will hold an auction for 16 exploration blocks—13 onshore and three offshore—across the Coastal, Graben Tanganyika and Central basins on 28-29 July 2022, the country’s ministry of hydrocarbons announced via social media. This is the first planned block auction since the adoption of a new hydrocarbons code in 2015. “The DRC has huge potential in terms of hy
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