Open Acreage Licensing Policy Subject – Economy Context – India offers 8 oil, gas blocks for bidding in latest round Concept – The Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy (HELP) replacing the erstwhile New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) was approved in March 2016 and the Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP) along with the National Data Repository (NDR) were launched in June 2017 as […]