Oil Gas Upstream Government Tenders in United States

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 United States?

GlobalGov holds 100 oil gas upstream records from 58 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are W6QM MICC-Ft Drum (20 records); DLA Land and Maritime (4 records); Fws Sat Team 3 (4 records); Fws, Sat Team 2 (4 records); DLA Land and Maritime (3 records); U.s. Dept. Of Treasury Restore Act Program (3 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 38% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are oil gas upstream contracts worth in United States?

16 of the 100 records publish a contract value. The median is $220,688 and the largest single published value is $300.0M. By size, 5 under $100k, 4 between $100k and $1M, 1 between $1M and $10M, 6 above $10M. The remaining 84 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.

How long do bidders get to respond to oil gas upstream tenders in United States?

Across the 93 United States oil gas upstream notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 10 days. A quarter of them allowed 8 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 15. 59 of them (63%) closed within a fortnight of being published, so on this market a bidder who reviews notices once a week can lose most of the response window before reading one.

How often are oil gas upstream tenders published in United States?

United States publishes about 7 notices a month in this category, 83 in the last twelve months. That is 493% more than the 14 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 100, spread across 14 separate months of activity since 26 September 2024. April is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 14 May 2026, 140 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.

How does United States compare with other oil gas upstream markets?

Among the 27 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable oil gas upstream market, United States ranks 19th by number of records. The largest is Poland (2,222 records against 100 here). Within United States itself, oil gas upstream is the 64th largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the United States oil gas upstream records on this page come from?

These 100 records are collected from 3 official sources: SAM.gov (93), Simpler.Grants.gov (5), Grants.gov (2). 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.

Open Oil Gas Upstream tenders in United States

Showing 4 of the 5 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the United States market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.

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