Offshore oil and gas industry site survey metadata

Available metadata for oil and gas industry site surveys, including their geographic locations. As the Data Archive Centre (DAC) for geology and geophysics for MEDIN (the Marine Environment Data and Information Network), the British Geological Survey (BGS) has been indexing metadata relating to oil and gas industry site surveys since 2009. The metadata describe site survey data acquired under exploration and production licences by oil companies from 1997 onwards. The metadata have been collected in collaboration with the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) (now the North Sea Transition Authority, NSTA). The metadata collected include: survey name; survey reference number(s); originator (or operating licencee); survey area boundary; contractor; start date; end date; survey description; additional information (including the equipment used); and the data custodian at the time of metadata submission. BGS hold only the metadata, not the data. To access the data, first check whether the data are provided by the NSTA through the National Data Repository (NDR) at https://ndr.nstauthority.co.uk/. If the data are not available, the NDR may be able to contact the data custodian to obtain the data.

Date (Creation): 2009

Identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608297

Distributor

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276

Point of contact

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276

Maintenance and update frequency: irregular Irregular

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Offshore operations
Offshore petroleum
Exploration
Seismic data
UK Location (INSPIRE)
Marine geology
Petroleum production
Marine surveys
Exploration licences
Petroleum industry

dataCentre

UK Location (INSPIRE)

Keywords

NERC_DDC

Access constraints: otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations

Other constraints: The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner(s) of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely accessible.

Use constraints: otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints: The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints: Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Spatial representation type: vector Vector

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

UK CONTINENTAL SHELF [id=121701]

Date (Creation): 1979

Begin date: 2009

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)

Distribution format

Distributor

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276

OnLine resource: North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) National Data Repository (NDR)
The NDR is the NSTA's online data access portal for petroleum-related licence information. Some of the oil and gas site survey data are now available for view and download through the NDR.

OnLine resource: Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) data portal
The British Geological Survey (BGS) is the MEDIN Data Archive Centre (DAC) for geology and geophysics. BGS hold metadata for the oil and gas site surveys, including a spatial index of the data available. These metadata are available through the MEDIN Portal.

OnLine resource: British Geological Survey GeoIndex (Offshore)
The BGS GeoIndex (Offshore) is an online spatial index which shows the range of marine geoscience data held by BGS. The GeoIndex (Offshore) includes a layer which shows the metadata that BGS hold for oil and gas site surveys.

OnLine resource: BGS OGC API endpoint: Offshore Oil & Gas Industry Site Surveys
This service provides an application programming interface (API) for data scientists, software developers and software applications to query and download a selection of BGS open data in machine-readable JSON format using the OGC API standards defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (https://ogcapi.ogc.org/).

OnLine resource: British Geological Survey GeoIndex (Offshore) Web Map Service (WMS)
Some GeoIndex datasets have been made available as Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web map services (WMS), which can be viewed in compatible software or in portal-style websites that use a map-based interface to connect to WMS. These web services allow you to bring the GeoIndex data layers into your own mapping software (GIS systems, etc.) to be viewed and compared alongside your own data and data from other providers.

Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Other: dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: No

Statement: The British Geological Survey (BGS) has been collecting metadata for oil and gas site surveys since 2009. Oil companies submit their data through the Petroleum Operations Notice (PON) system, submitting a PON 14a survey closeout form and a map showing the extent of the survey activity to BGS, as well as a MEDIN Site Survey Submission Form, providing information about the site survey, including its name, site licence details, equipment used, the licence operator, contractor, and start / end dates.