We provide tools that support your exploration
of our basin, enable your activities, and broaden
your discoveries.
The structural architecture of the basin is
described in three phases, namely the pre-rift,
rift, and post-rift (passive margin phase).
As an institution that prides itself on transparency and expediency, we have streamlined our application process to include only steps that are absolutely necessary. We also make ourselves available, to you, throughout the application process. For application documents for 5th licensing round, please visit the Licensing page.
Being an Act of Parliament to provide for the management of petroleum operations, to regulate and promote petroleum exploration, development and production; to regulate the licensing and participation of commercial entities in petroleum operations; to provide for proper supervision of petroleum operations, to promote the participation of Sierra Leone in the petroleum industry.
We work daily to ensure you get all the information you need to place a bid or apply for a license.
To access information on the licensing and bidding process, we ask that you verify yourself and your organization by providing us the following verifiable information:
20 Mandalay Street
Kingtom
Freetown
Sierra Leone
Monday – Friday:
8:00 – 17:00
Saturday: closed
Sunday: closed
+232 76 41 39 12
info@pd.gov.sl