3 May 2022
Licensing round May update
The industry's most comprehensive list of current and recent rounds for onshore and offshore licences
Planned rounds The UK will hold its upcoming offshore oil and gas licensing round this autumn, according to regulator the North Sea Transition Authority, formerly known as the Oil and Gas Authority. This will be the first UK licensing round to take into account the country’s forthcoming climate compatibility checkpoint for new oil and gas developments. No further details are available. Open India’s Directorate General of Hydrocarbons has again extended the deadline for bids in its Discovered Small Fields 3 round, this time to 31 May 2022. The round, which contains 32 contract areas across both onshore and offshore, opened on 10 June 2021. Mozambique’s National Petroleum Institute has announc

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