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UKCS BGS petroleum licence relinquishment prospects

An open database of opportunities as reported by operators in relinquishment reports. The data presented are as submitted in the reports and may contain errors or be incomplete. These data were last updated 13 September 2022 and are not part of a regular update cycle at this time. For this reason, this layer should not be used as a reference for the most accurate or most current prospects and discoveries. Warning: Due to the 254 character limit of shapefile downloads, some attributes within this dataset will be truncated when downloading as a shapefile.

Records
2,438
Formats
4
Last updated
29 Jul 2025

Download & API

UKCS BGS petroleum licence relinquishment prospects (CSV)csv
Spreadsheet — attributes, with coordinates for point layers
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UKCS BGS petroleum licence relinquishment prospects (GeoParquet)geoparquet
Columnar — query with DuckDB / SQL
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UKCS BGS petroleum licence relinquishment 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
PROSPECT
string
Opportunity Type
OPPORNTYPE
string9 values: Prospect (1,344), Lead (605), Discovery (329)…
Data Name
DataName
string
PDF Document Reference
Reference
string
Relinquishment Report HTTP
RELINQHTTP
string
Relinquishment Operator
RELINQOPER
string
Reservoir Age Name
RESERVAGE
string
Summary Comment
SUMCOMMENT
string
Hydrocarbon Case
HYDCRBCASE
string3 values: Oil (1,477), Gas (947), Mixed oil and gas (14)
Play Fairway LR
FAIRWAYLR
string
Principal Well
PRINCPWELL
string
Relinquishment Date
RELINQDATE
string
Entered Date
ENTERDATE
string
Licence List
LIC_LIST
string