Lebanese Petroleum Administration

Name

Lebanese Petroleum Administration

Legal name

Lebanese Petroleum Administration

Website

https://lpa.gov.lb

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Petroleum Resource Governance

NAICS

Crude Petroleum Extraction (211120), Oil and Gas Extraction (211)

SIC

Crude Petroleum & Natural Gas (1311)

akta.pro primary industry

Mineral Rights, Leasing & Land Management (EUALAAAB)

Keywords

• Offshore petroleum licensing
• Upstream petroleum regulation
• Exploration rights management
• Seismic data repository
• Petroleum resource governance

Headquarters

HQ city

Beirut

HQ country

Lebanon

HQ region

Middle East

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Government Take from Petroleum Activities: The Lebanese government collects revenues from petroleum activities through a Production Sharing Contract (PSC) framework. The government take comprises three components: Royalties, Government Share of Profit Petroleum, and Taxes. Right Holders bear all exploration and development costs and are only compensated from production revenues through cost recovery.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Lebanese Petroleum Administration manages Lebanon's offshore upstream petroleum sector, including the administration of licensing rounds, pre-qualification of International Oil Companies, and negotiation of Exploration and Production Agreements and Production Sharing Contracts. It maintains a centralized repository of seismic, geological, well, and cartographic data, and provides standardized regulatory oversight under the supervision of the Ministry of Energy and Water.

Product overview

The Lebanese Petroleum Administration (LPA) operates as a regulatory and administrative body overseeing Lebanon's offshore petroleum sector. Rather than a unified software product, LPA provides a portfolio of interconnected services: Data Rooms (physical and virtual) for accessing seismic and technical datasets; Maps Library with geopackages in ArcGIS format; Core Store for geological samples; Geoscience Library documenting studies from 1926-present; a Natural Gas Unit Conversion Calculator; a publicly accessible Petroleum Register; a Download Center for sector documents; Licensing Rounds Management platform; and Web Maps for geophysical survey visualization. These services collectively support the upstream petroleum lifecycle from exploration through production oversight.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Physical and Virtual Data Rooms Secure facilities for storing and providing access to petroleum-related data, including physical documents and digital datasets, available to qualified International Oil Companies and the public.
• Maps Library Centralized library of downloadable cartographic and geological map products (e.g., Bordered and Unbordered Maps, Stacked Satellite Map; Lebano-Syrian-Tethys Megasequence Maps) for use by qualified operators and the public.
• Core Store At-Rest Core Storage facility for physical preservation of drill cores and rock samples, with the ability to request access to stored materials.
• Geoscience Library Includes well data, well reports, Composite Well Log, Mud Logs, and a Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) viewer to display seismic data, supporting geological and geophysical analysis for petroleum exploration.
• Natural Gas Unit Conversion Calculator Online tool for converting natural gas units, including a unified petroleum measurement unit capacity chart, to support standardized energy measurement for the petroleum sector.
• Petroleum Register Official register for managing and tracking petroleum rights, licensing, and acreage information related to Lebanon's offshore Exclusive Economic Zone.
• Licensing Rounds Formal licensing rounds for offshore exploration blocks, including pre-qualification of International Oil Companies, bidding, and award of Exploration and Production Agreements and Production Sharing Contracts.
• Download Center Public-facing portal for downloading environmental reports, reports, data, and maps related to Lebanon's petroleum sector.
• Web Maps Interactive web mapping platform for visualizing geographic and offshore block data, including the 2D dataset tracklines and the 3D dataset survey polygons.

Named customers3 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• International Maritime Organization (IMO)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 August 2024IMO Training Course on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Cooperation Level 3 hosted by LPA from August 13-15, 2024. Organized in cooperation with REMPEC to enhance Lebanon's capabilities in managing large-scale offshore oil spill incidents.
• Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre (REMPEC)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 August 2024REMPEC cooperated with the IMO to organize the training course for Lebanese governmental institutions on oil spill preparedness and response, building national capacity for offshore incident management.
• Republic of CypruscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 July 2021Five-year Memorandum of Understanding signed on July 23, 2021 between Lebanon and Cyprus for cooperation in the oil and gas sector. Objectives include establishing a framework for cooperation including common and cross-border infrastructure, exchange of best practices and regulatory expertise, and training of scientific and technical staff in both countries.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Eni: Italian major IOC customer and Right Holder in Lebanese offshore Blocks 4, 8, and 9. Included as a key counterparty/ecosystem participant given its ongoing commercial relationship with LPA.
• TotalEnergies: French supermajor and IOC customer of LPA, holding interests in Blocks 4, 8, and 9. Included as a counterparty/ecosystem participant rather than a peer, reflecting LPA's role as a counterparty in PSC relationships.

Direct peers

• Cyprus Hydrocarbons Service: Cyprus's governmental authority overseeing offshore petroleum exploration and licensing in the Cypriot EEZ. Especially relevant as LPA's partner under the 2021 Lebanon-Cyprus MOU, with similar Eastern Mediterranean offshore focus and peer institutional structure.
• Australia's National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator (NOPTA): Australian government body responsible for administering offshore petroleum titles and maintaining the national petroleum register. Highly comparable to LPA in scope of licensing and title management functions.
• Mexico's Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH): Mexico's independent hydrocarbon regulator licensing exploration and production rights, including offshore acreage. Comparable to LPA as a sovereign regulator administering licensing rounds and managing petroleum rights.

Broad incumbents

• Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD): Norway's national petroleum regulator responsible for managing the country's oil and gas resources, including licensing rounds, data management, and regulatory oversight. Comparable to LPA as a sovereign petroleum administration with mature licensing frameworks and extensive data libraries.
• North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA): UK's oil and gas regulator managing licensing, exploration, and production oversight on the UK Continental Shelf. Directly comparable as a national petroleum licensing authority with established exploration round processes and petroleum register functions.
• Brazil's Agência Nacional do Petróleo (ANP): Brazilian federal oil and gas regulator managing licensing rounds, exploration oversight, and data dissemination. Comparable to LPA as a national petroleum sector administrator with PSC regime and licensing round capabilities.
• India's Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH): Indian government body under the Ministry of Petroleum that oversees upstream exploration, licensing, and production operations. Comparable to LPA in scope of regulatory oversight of upstream E&P activities.

Regional players

• Israel's Petroleum Commissioner Office (Ministry of Energy): Israel's regulator for offshore petroleum exploration licensing in the Israeli EEZ. Highly relevant regional peer given shared Eastern Mediterranean basin geology and overlapping maritime boundaries with Lebanon.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCZECVMHCKdzlbGA6F0F3VFA
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lebanese-petroleum-administration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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