Closed Sector - NL01-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（Sector）指计划土地使用权出让体系（scheduled land tenure system）内，将开展招标出让活动的地理区域。区块将在计划土地使用权出让流程启动之初完成划定，此举可让业界主体提前明确招标区域，并获得充足的前置筹备周期以推进勘探评估工作。区块信息将通过《区块划定公告》对外发布。区块由C-NLOPB依据业界提交的意向区域提名（Area of Interest nominations）以及勘探部门开展的土地评估结果进行配置划定。结合计划土地使用权出让体系的目标与流程，C-NLOPB已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（ha）或2万平方公里，可容纳约9份单幅员为800个勘探单元的勘探许可证（Exploration Licence, EL），该规格为C-NLOPB提供的最大尺寸EL。因此，相较于单个勘探靶区、现有油田及勘探许可证而言，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覆盖多种油气成藏组合（play）与勘探靶区类型。为便于勘探地块（parcel）的划定，区块边界可视为“弹性边界”：即勘探地块可超出区块边缘，以完整涵盖地下地质构造。