UKCS carbon storage areas offered for application
The North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) is today (9 December) launching the UK's second carbon storage licensing round with 14 areas available for application. The areas being offered for licensing are in the Southern North Sea, Central North Sea, Northern North Sea, English Channel, and East Irish Sea and are made up of a mixture of saline aquifers and depleted oil and gas field storage opportunities.
- Records
- 28
- Formats
- 5
- Last updated
- 3 Aug 2026
Download & API
UKCS carbon storage areas offered for application (CSV)csv
Spreadsheet — attributes, with coordinates for point layers
UKCS carbon storage areas offered for application (GeoJSON)geojson
GeoJSON — for web maps and GIS tools
UKCS carbon storage areas offered for application (GeoParquet)geoparquet
Columnar — query with DuckDB / SQL
UKCS carbon storage areas offered for application (map tiles)pmtiles
Vector tiles — embed in a map
Live ArcGIS layer (source)arcgis
Rendered from PMTiles, queried in-browser from GeoParquet — no server. How this works
Schema
| Field | Type | Values |
|---|---|---|
Round no. RNDNO | string | 3 values: 2 (14), 1 (13), OOR (1) |
Area offered for application CS_AREA | string | |
To Be Published on Open Data OPEN_DATA | string | 1 values: Y (28) |