hydrocarbon exploration licensing round

C18973
concept

A hydrocarbon exploration licensing round is a formal, time-bound process in which a government offers defined areas or blocks for companies to bid on rights to explore for and potentially produce oil and gas resources.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Norwegian petroleum licensing regime 1
hydrocarbon exploration licensing round canonical 1
offshore oil and gas leasing program 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: hydrocarbon exploration licensing round
Generated description
A hydrocarbon exploration licensing round is a formal, time-bound process in which a government offers defined areas or blocks for companies to bid on rights to explore for and potentially produce oil and gas resources.

Instances (3)

Instance Via concept surface
U.S. Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas program offshore oil and gas leasing program
Norwegian petroleum licensing rounds
APA petroleum licensing round system