UKCS offshore infrastructure pipeline points
NSTA Infrastructure Data is a set of data reported to the NSTA by relevant persons pursuant to Section 34 of the 2016 Energy Act. The data represents physical structures and facilities installed on the UKCS in fulfilment of relevant persons' licence, field operations or pipeline works authorisation (PWA) related activities. The data is currently updated on a 6 monthly cycle (April / October). Data includes surface installations, subsea infrastructure, pipelines and pipeline freespans. Warning: Due to the 254 character limit of shapefile downloads, some attributes within this dataset will be truncated when downloading as a shapefile.
- Records
- 47,598
- Formats
- 4
- Last updated
- 13 Aug 2026
Download & API
UKCS offshore infrastructure pipeline points (CSV)csv
Spreadsheet — attributes, with coordinates for point layers
UKCS offshore infrastructure pipeline points (GeoParquet)geoparquet
Columnar — query with DuckDB / SQL
UKCS offshore infrastructure pipeline points (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 |
|---|---|---|
Feature ID FEATURE_ID | string | |
Organisation ID ORG_ID | string | |
Current row indicator CURR_ROW | string | 1 values: Y (47,598) |
NSTA pipeline number NSTAPIPNO | string | |
Infrastructure name NAME | string | |
Type of infrastructure INF_TYPE | string | |
Reporting group name REP_GROUP | string | |
Pipeline system name PIPE_SYS | string | |
Description DESCRIPTIO | string | |
Status STATUS | string | 6 values: ACTIVE (47,295), NOT IN USE (232), PRECOMMISSIONED (43)… |
Comments COMMENTS | string | |
Original CRS code CRS_CODE | integer | 0 to 32,631 |
Original CRS name CRS_NAME | string | |
Original X longitude ORIG_X_LON | number | -4 to 768,809 |
Original Y latitude ORIG_Y_LAT | number | -3 to 6,834,073 |
Description of point POINT_DESC | string | |
Start date START_DATE | datetime | |
End date END_DATE | datetime | |
Reason for end date END_REAS | string | |
Date updated UPD_DATE | datetime | |
Update type UPD_TYPE | string | 4 values: NO CHANGE (44,289), MODIFY (2,086), ADD (1,152)… |
Reason for update UPD_REAS | string | |
Legacy ID LEGACY_ID | integer | 81,000,040 to 810,005,822 |