The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is offering around 78.2 million acres of oil and gas exploration land for a region-wide Gulf of Mexico lease sale scheduled for March 2021.

Nada Boustani, Lebanon’s Energy Minister, announced on January 13 that the deadline for submitting the applications in the second licensing round for oil and gas exploration has been extended.

Apache Corporation ‘s President and CEO, John J. Christmann, said that the firm has plans to increase investments in Egypt through using cutting-edge oil and gas exploration technologies, citing Ahram Online.

The tender is expected to include from eight to 12 concession blocks, including areas in the Western Desert, the Gulf of Suez, and the Eastern Desert, where crude oil is expected be found.

The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) expounded on new oil and gas discovery projects in the Sea of Oman.

Israel announced bids for 24 new offshore oil-and-gas exploration licenses.

Russia's Gazprom and the state geological exploration services company Rosgeologia have signed memorandums of understanding with Bahrain's state-owned Noga in the areas of liquified natural gas (LNG), and oil and gas exploration.

The Tanzanian government is set to become East Africa’s leading country in the exploration of oil and natural gas within the next decade, given that the country ensures that fiscal and regulatory structures are in place to support the government's gas plans.

Jordanian National Petroleum Company and IPG, a UK-based company, signed a production sharing agreement to explore for oil and gas in the eastern parts of the Middle Eastern kingdom.

Italian energy company Eni has opened three new plants for oil, gas, and water treatment in the Zubair oil and gas field in Southern Iraq.