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UKCS 33rd offshore petroleum licencing rounds featured prospects

Resource inventory created by the British Geological Survey (BGS) for the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) from public access data contained in the Relinquishment reports submitted to the OGA. To be published before the 33rd Licencing Round. The resources are linked back to the Relinquishment Reports stored on the NSTA web site.

Records
55
Formats
5
Last updated
5 Jun 2025

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UKCS 33rd offshore petroleum licencing rounds featured prospects (CSV)csv
Spreadsheet — attributes, with coordinates for point layers
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UKCS 33rd offshore petroleum licencing rounds featured prospects (GeoJSON)geojson
GeoJSON — for web maps and GIS tools
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UKCS 33rd offshore petroleum licencing rounds featured prospects (GeoParquet)geoparquet
Columnar — query with DuckDB / SQL
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UKCS 33rd offshore petroleum licencing rounds featured prospects (map tiles)pmtiles
Vector tiles — embed in a map
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Live ArcGIS layer (source)arcgis
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Rendered from PMTiles, queried in-browser from GeoParquet — no server. How this works

Schema

FieldTypeValues
Prospect ID
ProspectID
string
Prospect name
PROSP_NAME
string
Opportunity type
OPP_TYPE
string4 values: Discovery (29), Prospect (23), Drill-ready Prospect (2)…
Data name
DATA_NAME
string
Document reference
Reference
string
Relinquishment report link
RELREPHTTP
string
Relinquishment operator
REL_OPERAT
string
Reservoir age name
RESERV_AGE
string
Summary comment
SUM_COMM
string
Hydrocarbon case
HYCBN_CASE
string3 values: Gas (37), Oil (17), Mixed oil and gas (1)
LR play fairway
PLYFW_LR
string11 values: Carboniferous (17), Permian - Rotliegend (11), Upper Jurassic (6)…
Principal well
PRINC_WELL
string
Licence number
LIC_LIST
string
Round featured
ROUND_FT
string1 values: 33rd Round (55)
Prospect document link
PROSP_DOC
string