Operators submitted 36 applications for 164 frontier-area offshore blocks in the UK’s 31st Licensing Round, the Oil and Gas Authority reported (OGJ Online, July 10, 2018).
Blocks on offer cover more than 370,000 sq km in the Atlantic Margin, East Shetland Platform, Mid North Sea High, and English Channel.
The authority plans to offer licenses as early as possible in the second quarter of 2019.
It also plans to launch the 31st Supplementary Round in the Greater Buchan Area of the Outer Moray Firth in the first quarter of 2019 (OGJ Online, Oct. 23, 2018).
