EMODnet Human Activities, Oil and Gas, Active Licences
Short description
The dataset on offshore active licences for Oil and Gas exploitation and exploration in the European seas was created in 2014 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 available for viewing and download on EMODnet web portal (Human Activities, https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities). The dataset contains polygons representing the currently active licences in the following countries: Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain and United Kingdom. Where available each polygon has the following attributes: country, code, name, type (exploitation, exploration, exploitation and exploration, other), licensing round (it includes also pending applications in Spain), area (square km), area info (it indicates if the area value is original from the source or has been calculated), valid from, valid to, operator or administrator, notes. Currently there are no active licenced areas in the French and Portuguese waters and no data available for other countries.
Point of contact
Cogea srl
luigi.falco@bip-group.com
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.
Spatial extent
['-10.58', '34.59', '34.56', '70.09']
Type
dataset
Metadata information
Identifier
Keywords
Energy resources ; Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units ; GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ;


energy ; GEMET - Themes, version 2.4 ;


hydrocarbon ; oil exploration ; oil extraction ; offshore drilling ; oil production (chain) ; non-renewable energy resource ; natural gas extraction ; natural gas exploration ; GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1 ;


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

Cyprus - Ministry of Energy, Commerce and Industry - Hydrocarbons Service
nmarkou@meci.gov.cy

Spain - Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico - Archivo Técnico de Hidrocarburos
informacionma@miteco.es

France - Ministère de la Transition écologique, de la Biodiversité, de la Forêt, de la Mer et de la Pêche - Direction Generale de l'energie et du Climat (DGEC)
dgec-2a@developpement-durable.gouv.fr

Ireland - Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications - Integrated Petroleum Affairs System (IPAS)
DataEP.info@dccae.gov.ie

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

Poland - Polish Geological Institute - National Research Institute
biuro@pgi.gov.pl

Norway - Norwegian Petroleum Directorate
FactWeb@npd.no

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

Denmark - Danish Energy Agency
rk@ens.dk

Italy - Ministero dell'ambiente e della sicurezza energetica - Direzione generale fonti energetiche e titoli abilitativi
fta@pec.mase.gov.it

Portugal - Direção-Geral de Energia e Geologia
josemiguel.martins@dgeg.pt

Germany - Landesamt fur Bergbau, Energie und Geologie
Hans-Juergen.Brauner@lbeg.niedersachsen.de

Malta - Ministry for Finance - Continental Shelf Department
charles.a.galea@gov.mt

Croatia - Croatian Hydrocarbon Agency
igor.turcin@azu.hr

Lineage
Data were retrived from 12 different sources. 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. 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. In Spain, Gaviota is a storage licence (almacenamiento) that was harmonized as'other' type. When areas had to be calculated we used as much as possible the original projected coordinate system of the raw data or the UTM-WGS84 zone that the national data falls in.