Open now
Biddable today, sorted by what closes first. Rolling offers have no deadline — acreage is always available, so what matters is the declaration of interest, not an auction date. Oil and gas, CO2 storage and geothermal are listed together: a deadline is a deadline whatever is under the ground. Use the resource filter to see one on its own.
Announced, no dates
Governments and NOCs have committed publicly but published no block list or deadline. Several of these have slipped repeatedly — Tanzania's fifth round has been imminent since early 2025.
Closed for business
The half of this map nobody publishes. A moratorium, a ban or an abolished regulator is as decisive for a new-ventures screen as an open round — and far harder to find out about, because nothing gets announced when nothing happens.
Recently closed and awarded
What happened to the acreage, and what came back. Unawarded blocks return to the basket and reappear on revised terms — Libya is relaunching seventeen, Nigeria thirteen.
Would a version that did more be worth paying for?
Everything on this page is free and stays that way. The fortnightly briefing will always be free too. What is not built, and might never be, is the layer above it: watching the countries you care about, telling you the day something moves rather than at the end of the fortnight, and the terms under each round so you can tell whether it is worth an afternoon before you spend one.
Before building any of that I would rather know whether it is worth anything to the people who would use it. If it is, say so and say what you would want. If the free briefing is already enough, that is just as useful to hear.
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Sourcing
Every entry links to the source it came from. Where a regulator has published nothing and the round exists only in a ministerial statement at a conference, that is marked — because "announced at AEW" and "biddable to a published deadline" are not the same thing, and treating them as equivalent is how a screening exercise wastes a quarter.
Two entries carry active contradictions in their published sources. Kazakhstan's twelfth round shows an auction date falling before its own application deadline. Algeria's block count is reported as seven perimeters by three sources and twenty-four by a fourth. These are flagged rather than silently resolved. Bangladesh was a third until Petrobangla's own Invitation for Bid was located and enumerated the blocks — twenty-six, not twenty-seven. That is what this publication is for.
Compiled from primary regulator publications where they exist, and trade press where they do not. Dates are as published and move frequently — India's OALP-X deadline was extended four times. Verify against the regulator before committing capital or a bid team.