Guidance

Oil and gas: geoscientific data

A series of reports offering geoscientific data relating to exploration opportunities on the UK Continental Shelf.

• From: Oil and Gas Authority
• Published: 22 January 2013

This guidance was withdrawn on 6 October 2016

The Oil & Gas Authority launched a new website on 3 October 2016 to reflect its new status as a government company.

This formalises the transfer of the Secretary of State’s regulatory powers in respect of oil and gas to the OGA, and grants it new powers. This website will no longer be updated. Visitors should refer to www.ogauthority.co.uk

On 1st April 2015 certain functions passed from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) a newly created Executive Agency of DECC

The following reports have been pulled together to offer potential developers access to geoscientific data relating to exploration opportunities on the UK Continental Shelf:

• BGS Bowland Shale Gas Study reports
• Petroleum prospectivity of the principal sedimentary basins on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (PDF, 3.92 MB, 41 pages)
• The hydrocarbon prospectivity of Britain’s onshore basins (PDF, 3.7 MB, 93 pages)
• The unconventional hydrocarbon resources of Britain's onshore basins – coalbed methane (CBM) (PDF, 3.97 MB, 45 pages)
• The unconventional hydrocarbon resources of Britain's onshore basins – shale gas (PDF, 5.63 MB, 40 pages)
• Stratigraphic plays of the UKCS (PDF, 8.2 MB, 9 pages)
• Carboniferous petroleum systems beneath the Central North Sea (PDF, 5.83 MB, 7 pages)
• Lower cretaceous deep-water sand plays, UK Central Graben (PDF, 4.17 MB, 5 pages)
• Potential future exploration opportunities, UK Rockall Basin (PDF, 5.95 MB, 7 pages)
• Prospectivity of the English Channel (PDF, 4.27 MB, 7 pages)
• South West Approaches prospectivity (PDF, 1.08 MB, 5 pages)
• Prospectivity in the UKCS north of 62°N (PDF, 9.33 MB, 6 pages)

Published 22 January 2013