Active Sector - NL01-SN

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.区块指既定矿区租赁制度中开展招标的地理范围。区块将在既定矿区租赁流程启动时完成标识，以使行业参与方可提前获知招标区域，并获得较长的筹备周期，从而为勘探评估预留充足时间。区块将通过《区块识别公告》对外发布。加拿大纽芬兰与拉布拉多省石油和天然气委员会（C-NLOPB）将依据行业方提交的兴趣区域提名，以及勘探部门对矿区的评估结果完成区块配置。C-NLOPB结合既定矿区租赁制度的目标与流程，确定了潜在区块的适宜规模。单个区块的面积约为200万公顷（ha）或2万平方千米，可容纳约9份800平方英里区块规格的勘探许可证（exploration licences, ELs）——这也是C-NLOPB提供的最大规模勘探许可证尺寸。相较于勘探目标、现有油田与勘探许可证而言，此类区块的规模相对较大。区块的设计旨在覆盖广阔地理范围内的多种成藏组合与勘探目标类型。出于地块设计的需求，区块边界可视为“弹性边界”，即地块可延伸至区块边界之外，以完整涵盖地下的地质特征。