Closed Sector - NL02-EN

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.区块指的是计划性土地权属制度中开展招标活动的地理范围。区块将在计划性土地权属流程启动阶段完成划定，以便行业主体能够提前获知招标区域，获得充足的前置筹备时间开展勘探评估工作。区块将通过《区块标识公告》对外发布。区块由C-NLOPB根据行业提交的权益区域提名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制度的目标与流程，C-NLOPB已确定潜在区块的适宜规模。单个区块的面积约为200万公顷（ha）或2万平方公里，可容纳约9份800法定分区规格的勘探许可证（Exploration Licences, ELs，即C-NLOPB提供的最大规格勘探许可证）。就此而言，相较于单个勘探靶区、现有油田及勘探许可证，区块的规模相对较大。区块的设计初衷是在广阔的地理范围内兼容多种含油气组合与勘探靶区类型。出于地块规划的目的，区块边界可视为“弹性边界”：地块可超出区块范围，以完整包含地下地质构造。