Offshore oil and gas industry site survey metadata
type: Dataset
description: 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.
issued: 2024-11-17T14:06:22.712353
modified: 2026-08-06T20:22:46.087844
spatial: Location
  geometry: {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[3.4100, 47.4100], [-25.1400, 47.4100], [-25.1400, 63.9100], [3.4100, 63.9100], [3.4100, 47.4100]]]}
keyword: Exploration
keyword: Exploration licences
keyword: Marine geology
keyword: Marine surveys
keyword: NERC_DDC
keyword: Offshore operations
keyword: Offshore petroleum
keyword: Petroleum industry
keyword: Petroleum production
keyword: Seismic data

North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) National Data Repository (NDR)
type: Distribution
description: 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.
issued: 2026-08-06T20:22:46.154377
modified: 2026-08-06T20:22:46.091897
access URL: https://ndr.nstauthority.co.uk/

Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) data portal
type: Distribution
description: 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.
issued: 2026-08-06T20:22:46.154379
modified: 2026-08-06T20:22:46.091979
access URL: https://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/browse_step.php

GeoIndex_Offshore_offshore_data
type: Distribution
description: 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.
issued: 2026-08-06T20:22:46.154382
modified: 2026-08-06T20:22:46.092121
access URL: https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/GeoIndex_Offshore/offshore_data/MapServer/WmsServer

GeoIndex Offshore
type: Distribution
description: 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.
format: HTML
issued: 2026-08-06T20:22:46.154380
modified: 2026-08-06T20:22:46.092033
access URL: https://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex_offshore/home.html
media type: text/html

BGS OGC API endpoint: Offshore Oil & Gas Industry Site Surveys
type: Distribution
description: 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/).
issued: 2026-08-06T20:22:46.154381
modified: 2026-08-06T20:22:46.092079
access URL: https://ogcapi.bgs.ac.uk/collections/offshore-oil-gas-site-surveys

British Geological Survey (BGS)
type: Organization