Licensing rounds, service contracts and local content obligations
Notices in this category cover two quite different things. One is access to acreage: licensing or bid rounds in which a state offers exploration and production rights and evaluates work programme commitments, financial capacity and fiscal terms rather than a price for services. The other is the service market that follows -- drilling, seismic, well services, engineering, fabrication, inspection and maintenance -- bought by national oil companies and operators under conventional contracts. The qualification routes for the two have almost nothing in common.
Service contracts in upstream work are dominated by day rates and standby rates, because the cost of an idle rig or vessel is the thing both parties are managing. Mobilisation and demobilisation are priced separately, weather and waiting-on-operations risk is allocated explicitly, and the contract usually carries a knock-for-knock liability regime in which each party bears its own people and property loss regardless of fault. That regime is standard in the industry and surprising to bidders arriving from other sectors.
Two requirement sets tend to decide who can compete. Safety and environmental management is assessed as a system -- permit to work, well control certification, emergency response, spill preparedness, and an auditable incident record -- and a weak record excludes a bidder before commercial evaluation. Local content obligations are the second: many producing states require defined proportions of local employment, local sourcing, training and often local ownership, evidenced in the bid and audited during the contract, which makes a credible in-country partner a practical condition of entry rather than a commercial choice.
This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.
Who buys oil gas upstream in Netherlands?
GlobalGov holds 230 oil gas upstream records from 147 distinct buying organisations in Netherlands. The most frequent publishers are Ministerie van Defensie (10 records); Inkoopcombinatie Energie Rijnland en Duin- en Bollenstreek (5 records); Coöperatieve Vereniging Midwaste Milieu U.A. (3 records); Gemeente Groningen (3 records); Gemeente Waalwijk (3 records); Regio Rivierenland (3 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 12% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ministerie van Defensie | 10 | 4.3% |
| Inkoopcombinatie Energie Rijnland en Duin- en Bollenstreek | 5 | 2.2% |
| Coöperatieve Vereniging Midwaste Milieu U.A. | 3 | 1.3% |
| Gemeente Groningen | 3 | 1.3% |
| Gemeente Waalwijk | 3 | 1.3% |
| Regio Rivierenland | 3 | 1.3% |
What are oil gas upstream contracts worth in Netherlands?
58 of the 230 records publish a contract value. The median is $1.6M and the largest single published value is $132.8M. By size, 8 under $100k, 13 between $100k and $1M, 24 between $1M and $10M, 13 above $10M. The remaining 172 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 8 | 14% |
| between $100k and $1M | 13 | 22% |
| between $1M and $10M | 24 | 41% |
| above $10M | 13 | 22% |
How long do bidders get to respond to oil gas upstream tenders in Netherlands?
Across the 52 Netherlands oil gas upstream notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 43 days. A quarter of them allowed 38 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 52. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are oil gas upstream tenders published in Netherlands?
Netherlands publishes about 5 notices a month in this category, 59 in the last twelve months. That is 90% more than the 31 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 112, spread across 55 separate months of activity since 26 May 2021. May is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 26 May 2026, 128 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does Netherlands compare with other oil gas upstream markets?
Among the 27 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable oil gas upstream market, Netherlands ranks 12th by number of records. The largest is Poland (2,222 records against 230 here). Within Netherlands itself, oil gas upstream is the 39th largest of the 63 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Netherlands oil gas upstream records on this page come from?
These 230 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (230). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.
Most recent Oil Gas Upstream tenders in Netherlands
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 230 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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