The Ministry of Petroleum of Chad is offering 24 open blocks on an open-door policy.    As of August 2017, the open blocks were:Â           Basin   Name            Block   Name            Block Sqkm               Al   Kufra Basin            Djado   Block II            13,771               Al   Kufra Basin            Erdis   I            32,979               Al   Kufra Basin            Erdis   II            15,614               Al   Kufra Basin            Largeau   Block I            11,706               Chad   Basin            Largeau   Block II            11,739               Chad   Basin            Largeau   Block III bis            11,302               Chad   Basin            Largeau   Block IV bis            18,901               Chad   Basin            Largeau   Block VI            11,706               Chad   Basin            Largeau   Block VII            11,815               Chad   Basin            LC-2008            11,977               Chad   Basin            Manga   Block            16,907               Chad   Basin            Moussoro   Block            11,927               Chad   Basin      Chad   Basin            Lac   Chad Block      Lac Chad Block I         11,900      3,782             Chad   Basin            Siltou   Block I            13,300               Chad   Basin            Siltou   Block II            17,800               Chad   Basin, Bongor Trough            MD-2008            11,760               Djado   Basin            Djado   Block I            20,493               Doba   Trough            WD   1-2008            1,988               Doba   Trough~Bongor Trough            Chari-Ouest   Block III            4,651               Doseo   Trough            BDS-2008            41,875               Erdis   Basin            Erdis            36,830               Erdis   Basin            Erdis-2008            37,150               Erdis   Basin            Erdis   Block V            14,150               Source:   IHS Markit            Â             Â© 2017 IHS Markit          Â   The Al Kufra Basin is better known as Erdis Basin in Chad.   The south extension in Niger and Chad of the Murzuq Basin is called Djado Basin (or Jadu Basin) and has seen no hydrocarbon exploration in the past.    The Faya-Largeau area is poorly explored, with only few low-quality seismic lines acquired in the 1980s.     The Lake Chad area was one of the first regions to be explored in Chad, but unlike the Doba Trough, it has not been intensively explored. Three discoveries have been made: Kanem-1 in 1974, Sedigi in 1975 and Kumia-1 in 1976.     The latest version of the Hydrocarbon Laws in Chad was translated into English in August 2008. On 27 August 2007, Prime Minister M. Nouradine Delwa KassirÃ© Comakye announced that the Republic of Chad had promulgated legal texts and implemented mechanisms relating to the specific management of its oil incomes in order to adhere to the EITI. The Government solemnly declared that the principles of this initiative from that moment on would be applied to Chad and the incomes drawn from the extractive industries would be declared and used in a total transparency.
Chad, Sedigi (Dev)