EMODnet Human Activities, Oil and Gas, Offshore Installations
Short description
The dataset on offshore installations for Oil and Gas exploitation and exploration activities in the European seas was created in 2015 by Cogea for the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet). It is the result of the aggregation and harmonization of datasets provided by several EU and non-EU sources. It is updated every year and it is available for viewing and download on EMODnet web portal (Human Activities, https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities). The dataset contains points representing offshore installations and where available each point has the following attributes: ID, name, country, location block, operator, production start year, primary production, current status, category and function of the installation, sub-structure and topside weights (tonnes), water depth (metres), distance to coast (metres) and notes. The OSPAR commission source covers data for Germany, Ireland, Spain (Atlantic Sea), while for Italy data have been collected and harmonized from the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, for Denmark from the Danish Energy Agency, for the Netherlands from the TNO - Geological Survey of the Netherlands, for Croatia from the Croatian Hydrocarbon Agency, for Norway from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, for the UK from the Oil and Gas Authority (surface infrastructures), for Polish and Russian installations in the Baltic Sea from Marine Traffic and Helcom, finally from Marine Traffic come the data for Bulgarian, Russian and Ukrainian installations in the Black Sea and for Spanish installations in the Mediterranean Sea.
Point of contact
Cogea srl
Resource constraints
Re-use of content for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the sources (both EMODnet - Human Activities, and primary sources) are acknowledged. EMODnet - Human Activities accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the re-use of content accessible on its website. Please note that OSPAR data sets retrieved from www.ospar.org may be used for any purpose whatsoever unchanged and in whole, provided: a. OSPAR is identified as the (and as the case may be, partial) source; b. no representation is made of OSPAR having in any way endorsed the purpose of using OSPAR’s data set(s) concerned; c. the user 1 complies to the sublicence particulars listed in OSPAR’s metadata catalogue for the data set(s) concerned, in cases where this concerns data set(s) that OSPAR avails of under third party licence; d. data set(s) are not to be redistributed, in part or in whole. Where distribution is deemed necessary third parties should be referred to www.ospar.org.
Spatial extent
['-11.0585', '32.7128', '33.7509', '72.5406']
Type
dataset
Metadata information
Identifier
Keywords
Energy resources ; GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ;

energy ; GEMET - Themes, version 2.4 ;

hydrocarbon ; oil exploration ; oil extraction ; offshore drilling ; oil production (chain) ; petroleum industry ; GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1 ;

Resource provider(s)
Cogea srl
lfalco@cogea.it

Norway - Norwegian Petroleum Directorate
FactWeb@npd.no

Denmark - Danish Energy Agency
yde@ens.dk

Croatia - Croatian Hydrocarbon Agency
tatjana.durn@azu.hr

Marine Traffic

Helsinki Commission

OSPAR Commission
chris.moulton@ospar.org

Italy - Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico - Direzione Generale per le risorse Minerarie ed Energetiche
nicola.santocchi@mise.gov.it

Netherlands - TNO - Geological Survey of the Netherlands
info@nlog.nl

UK - North Sea Transition Authority
GIS-Team@ogauthority.co.uk

Lineage
Validation and quality assurance remain up to primary data sources, while harmonization is carried out by Cogea. The harmonisation process consisted of identifying a set of attributes common to all the different datasets, thus creating a single data model based on the OSPAR's one. To do so, it was necessary to define a homogenous set of variables for each attribute. Therefore, raw data attributes may use a different terminology, although the information contained remains basically the same. For further information on validation and quality assurance, it is suggested that primary data sources are contacted. Generally speaking data are to be considered very reliable, because they come from national sources officially in charge for their collection. The distance to coast (EEA coastline shapefile) has been calculated using the original data map projections, where available. In the other cases it was used the UTM WGS84 Zone projected coordinate system where data fall in.