On 20 March 2018, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology announced the offer of three exploratory blocks located in the Arctic part of Krasnoyarsk Kray (Eastern Siberia). Applications must be submitted by 27 April 2018 to Krasnoyarsknedra (660049, Krasnoyarsk, Karla Marksa Str., 62). If any block receives multiple valid applications, it could be offered through an open auction.  The Srednepyasinskiy-2 block covers 2,515 sq km in the central part of the Yenisey-Khatanga Basin, some 25 km east of the Posoyskiy license operated by Yermak Neftegaz (BP/Rosneft). Hydrocarbon resources of the offered block are estimated at 9 MMbbl of oil and 685 Bcf of gas. Clastic reservoirs of the Jurassic-Cretaceous sedimentary section are the main exploratory targets.  The Ust-Popigayskiy block covers 4,540 sq km in the south-western part of the Lena-Anabar Basin, close to the Khatanga Bay where Rosneft reported the Tsentralno-Olginskoye discovery in 2017. Hydrocarbon resources of the offered block are estimated at 18 MMbbl of oil and 719 Bcf of gas.     The Lukunskiy block covers 2,987 sq km in the south-western part of the Lena-Anabar Basin, west of the Ust-Popigayskiy block. Hydrocarbon resources of the offered block are estimated at 7 MMbbl of oil and 449 Bcf of gas.
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