The following text is the view of the editor and addresses some of the highlights planned for 2020 â article written in July 2020.    Disko      Island and Nuusuuaq Peninsula onshore areas are open for licence applications        Five      further areas to be opened for licensing between November 2020 and January      2022  Drilling      programme by GGO potentially starting in December 2020   Licensing: Greenland will see a series of Open Door Procedures and Licensing Rounds between 2020 and 2022. The first of these, covering the onshore Disko Island and Nuussuaq Peninsula areas, opened for bids in February 2020. An end date has not yet been given but a three-month notice period will be provided in advance of closing. Three blocks are available totalling 13,073 sq km. The next areas to open will be Davis Strait, Baffin Bay and Disko West (all offshore) in November 2020 and these will be followed in 2021 by Northeast Greenland and in 2022 by Central East Greenland.           Region (area)         Opening date         Type              Disko Island and Nuussuaq Peninsula          February 2020         Open Door Procedure             Davis Strait         November 2020         Open Door Procedure             Baffin Bay         November 2020         Open Door Procedure             Disko West          November 2020         Open Door Procedure             Northeast Greenland         July 2021         Licensing Round             Central East Greenland         January 2022         Licensing Round                     Drilling: In late 2019 Greenland Gas and Oil (GGO) confirmed its plans to potentially undertake exploration drilling in its onshore licences in Jameson Land between December 2020 and March 2021. The company has identified three potential drilling locations â two in licence 2015/13 and one in 2015/14. The first well will be located in the southwestern part of 2015/13 and the second will lie in the northwest area of the same licence. A possible third well would lie in the northwestern part of 2015/14. The Jameson Land Basin is a multiple-play system and GGO sees the greatest potential in the Middle Jurassic (Pelion Member of the Vardekloft Formation and Olympen Formation) and the Lower Jurassic (Kap Stewart Formation and possibly the Neill Klinter Formation). Secondary targets are the Upper Jurassic Hareelv Formation in the southernmost licensed area and the Upper Triassic Gipsdalen and Fleming Fjord formations.   Jameson Land was previously licensed to ARCO which, for a five year period ending in 1990, was the operator of approximately 10,000 sq km over the central part of the basin. A large amount of data was accrued but no exploration wells have been drilled to date. Studies by GEUS and several academic institutions, along with GGOâs own studies, suggest that the key elements for a hydrocarbon system exist. GGO has identified several major source and reservoir intervals and a number of potential drillable targets (50+ leads) throughout the 17 km stratigraphic thickness of the basin. Gross unrisked recoverable resource volumes (mid-case) are approximately 3.3 Bboe. GGO has acquired and processed a Full Tensor Gravimetric survey over its acreage and has integrated this with a reprocessed 2D seismic data set from GEUS.  In addition to the three licences operated by GGO, there is another licence in the southwestern part of Greenland held by Panoceanic Energy. 2017/14 was awarded in August 2018 and covers an area of 9,999 sq km. No details of the work programme have been released.
Greenland, Disko Island and Nuusuuaq Peninsula onshore areas are open for licence applications Five further areas to be opened for licensing between November 2020 and January 2022 Drilling programme by GGO potentially starting in December 2020 Licensing: Greenland will see a series of Open Door Procedures and Licensing Rounds between 2020 and 2022. The first of these, covering the onshore Disko Island and Nuussuaq Peninsula areas, opened for bids in February 2020.