Closed Sector - NL02-SEN

Sectors represent the geographic area for which a call for bids will take place in the scheduled land tenure system. Sectors will be identified at the beginning of the scheduled land tenure process, such that industry will have a known call for bids area with a long lead schedule, allowing additional time for exploration assessment. A sector will be posted via a Sector Identification announcement. Sectors will be configured by the C-NLOPB, based upon the Area of Interest nominations received from industry and assessment of lands by the Exploration Department. The C-NLOPB has considered the appropriate size of potential sectors, given the goals and process of the scheduled land tenure system. The size of a sector will be approximately 2 million hectares (ha) or 20 000 km2 and therefore will accommodate roughly nine, 800 section exploration licences (ELs) (the maximum EL size offered by the C-NLOPB). As such, sectors will be large relative to exploration prospects, existing fields and exploration licences. They will be designed to allow for multiple play and prospect types over an extensive geographical area. Sector boundaries will be considered “flexible” for the purpose of parcel design; such that parcels can extend beyond the edge of a sector to properly contain geological features in the subsurface.区块（Sectors）是计划性土地权属体系（scheduled land tenure system）中开展招标邀约的地理范围。区块将在计划性土地权属流程启动时完成划定，以便行业主体能够提前获知招标邀约区域，预留充足的勘探评估筹备时间。区块将通过《区块划定公告（Sector Identification announcement）》对外发布。区块由加拿大纽芬兰与拉布拉多省海上石油委员会（C-NLOPB）依据行业主体提交的权益区域提名，以及勘探部门开展的土地评估结果进行配置划定。结合计划性土地权属体系的目标与流程，C-NLOPB已论证确定了潜在区块的合理规模。单个区块的面积约为200万公顷（hectare, ha）或2万平方千米（km²），可容纳约9份800平方英里规格的勘探许可证（Exploration Licences, EL）——这也是C-NLOPB提供的最大尺寸勘探许可证。就此而言，相较于单个勘探靶区、已发现油田与勘探许可证，区块的规模相对更大。区块的设计可覆盖大范围地理区域内的多种油气成藏组合与勘探靶区类型。为开展地块规划，区块边界可视为"弹性边界"，即地块可延伸至区块边缘以外，以完整包含地下地质体。