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 Sweden?
GlobalGov holds 161 oil gas upstream records from 109 distinct buying organisations in Sweden. The most frequent publishers are KKB Fastigheter AB (5 records); Kustbevakningen (4 records); Myndigheten för Samhällsskydd och Beredskap (Msb) (4 records); TvNo Textilservice AB (4 records); Försvarsmakten (3 records); Region Gotland (3 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 14% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| KKB Fastigheter AB | 5 | 3.1% |
| Kustbevakningen | 4 | 2.5% |
| Myndigheten för Samhällsskydd och Beredskap (Msb) | 4 | 2.5% |
| TvNo Textilservice AB | 4 | 2.5% |
| Försvarsmakten | 3 | 1.9% |
| Region Gotland | 3 | 1.9% |
What are oil gas upstream contracts worth in Sweden?
80 of the 161 records publish a contract value. The median is $960,000 and the largest single published value is $96.0M. By size, 1 under $100k, 43 between $100k and $1M, 29 between $1M and $10M, 7 above $10M. The remaining 81 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 | 1 | 1.2% |
| between $100k and $1M | 43 | 54% |
| between $1M and $10M | 29 | 36% |
| above $10M | 7 | 8.8% |
How long do bidders get to respond to oil gas upstream tenders in Sweden?
Across the 29 Sweden oil gas upstream notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 33 days. A quarter of them allowed 31 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 36. 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 Sweden?
Sweden publishes about 2 notices a month in this category, 27 in the last twelve months. Volume is steady against the 26 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 74, spread across 52 separate months of activity since 4 June 2021. January 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 Sweden compare with other oil gas upstream markets?
Among the 27 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable oil gas upstream market, Sweden ranks 16th by number of records. The largest is Poland (2,222 records against 161 here). Within Sweden itself, oil gas upstream is the 51st largest of the 65 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Sweden oil gas upstream records on this page come from?
These 161 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (161). 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 Sweden
None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical oil gas upstream notice in Sweden is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
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