The Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy has received an application for offshore block F15c (88 sq km), with a 13 week public tender for competing applications launched on 12 February 2020. The tender closes on 15 May 2020 and the original applicant and any additional applicants will not be named until after the public tender closes. F15c is located in the E of the block, 35km from the Netherlands-German offshore border, and contains two dry NFW's. Adjacent to the N of the F15c acreage is open block F12 (400 sq km) which is subject to completing bids from NAM and HALO, since November 2018. To the E is 2019 awarded NAM exploration licence G13a (388 sq km), and to the W are Total-operated production licences F15a (234 sq km) and F15d (4 sq km) containing the F15-A & F15-B gas fields producing from the Early Triassic Lower Volpriehausen Sandstone Member. 
The Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy has received an application for offshore block F15c (88 sq km), with a 13 week public tender for competing applications launched on 12 February 2020. The tender closes on 15 May 2020 and the original applicant and any additional applicants will not be named until after the public tender closes. 