ALBANIA TO OPEN ONSHORE ACREAGE

Albania will throw open its onshore basins to exploration and development by foreign operators. The area available for licensing consists of 4,400 sq km divided into 21 blocks. Deadline for submission of bids is June 30, 1993, with blocks to be awarded the following Sept. 30. Details of the country's first onshore licensing round will be displayed by state owned Albpetrol during the Society of Exploration Geophysicists annual meeting Oct. 25-29 in New Orleans, to be followed by seminars in