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.
Offshore oil and gas industry site survey metadata
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.
North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) National Data Repository (NDR)
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.
Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) data portal
One or more layers for the dataset is provided through this OGC WMS (view) service. This URL is the service end-point and is intended for consumption by software clients that understand the WMS API.
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.
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/).
BGS OGC API endpoint: Offshore Oil & Gas Industry Site Surveys