Outgoing head of the Ministry of Energy & Non-Renewable Natural Resources (MENRNR), Carlos Perez Garcia, announced on 19 November 2019, at the XIV Annual Meeting of Mining, Energy and Petroleum in Quito, that Ronda Intracampos II, consisting of six blocks will be launched in December 2019. Perez said that this will be the last tender of 2019 and the government expects private investment of around US$ 1 billion. However, in an official announcement, the incoming head of the MENRNR, Jose Agusto Briones, on 22 November 2019, did not state any timescales for the round and instead stated that it is analysing ways to implement new scenarios to achieve Ronda Intracampos II, in order to capture US$ 850 million from the private sector. It seems unlikely that the round will be in 2019, with the changeover in the MENRNR and the comments made by the new minister.News reports in October 2019 had previously indicated that the round would be launched in November 2019, however this was pushed further down the agenda as violent protests over a planned fuel price hike crippled Ecuador and led to widescale shut down of the oil industry from 7 to 13 October 2019, causing around 2 MMbo of production to be lost. Back in June 2019, as the ink was still drying on seven contracts covering blocks offered as part of Ronda XII Intracampos 2018 in May 2019, sources were already indicating that Ecuador was planning its next licensing round with a provisional launch date of November 2019. Contract signing was expected to occur in May 2020 but may now be pushed back by around a month. The Production Sharing Contract (PSC) used for Ronda XII Intracampos 2018 will be continued. Contracts will be based on a sliding scale, with company(s) take ranging from 87.5% at US$ 30/bo to 40% at US$ 120/bo. The blocks to be offered in Intracampos II apparently number six but have not yet been specified, although indications are they will include portions of the southern region of the Oriente Basin in the north east Amazon. Ecuador offered eight blocks as part of Ronda XII Intracampos in the northern part of the Oriente Basin, of which seven were awarded and signed for in May 2019. Ecuador had previously planned to offer blocks 20, 22 and 29 as a spin off from the "Ronda Suroriente", under the designation "Subandino", although no precise timescale was given when it was announced in October 2018. It is possible that these blocks may be offered as part of Intracampos II. In October 2018, Ecuador's Energy Minister, Carloz Perez, said that plans for the first phase of the Ronda Suroriente, the "Bloques 80s" were to be slimmed down to just include blocks 86 and 87. The second phase of Ronda Suroriente, the "Bloques 70s" was suspended indefinitely. Both Ronda Suroriente revisions were to "prevent social unrest" in the Amazon regions where the blocks were located. Ecuador still plans to stage a Ronda Suroriente in 2020 or beyond.
Outgoing head of the Ministry of Energy & Non-Renewable Natural Resources (MENRNR), Carlos Perez Garcia, announced on 19 November 2019, at the XIV Annual Meeting of Mining, Energy and Petroleum in Quito, that Ronda Intracampos II, consisting of six blocks will be launched in December 2019. Perez said that this will be the last tender of 2019 