EMODnet Human Activities, Oil and Gas, Wells
The dataset on offshore wells for Oil and Gas activities in the EU 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 updated every year, and is available for viewing and download on EMODnet - Human Activities web portal (www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu). It contains points representing offshore wells drilled in the following countries: Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Faroe Islands, France, Germany, Greece (only for western coast), Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and United Kingdom. Where available each point has the following attributes: status (active, abandoned, other, suspended, N/A), country, code, name, year (spud date), purpose (exploitation, exploration, other), content (crude oil, natural gas, crude oil and natural gas, dry, other), operator, drilling company/facility, distance to coast (metres) and water depth (metres). Compared with the previous version this new version has been updated for most of the countries that have published or sent their last release of data.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2014-04-04
- Date (Revision)
- 2020-11-13
- Date (Creation)
- 2014-03-27
- Identifier
- EMODnet_HA_OG_Wells_20201113
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Energy resources
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GEMET - Themes, version 2.4
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energy
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GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1
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hydrocarbon
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oil exploration
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oil extraction
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offshore drilling
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oil production (chain)
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petroleum industry
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- Use limitation
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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. Data on Germany are not available for download in order to comply with the terms of use of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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no limitation
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 100000
- Metadata language
- English
- Topic category
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- Utilities communication
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- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:4326
- Reference system identifier
- ISO 19108 calendar
- Distribution format
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unknown
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unknown
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unknown
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unknown
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- Transfer size
- 0
- OnLine resource
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EMODnet Human Activities
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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EMODnet Human Activities aims to facilitate access to existing marine data on activities carried out in EU waters, by building a single entry point for geographic information on human uses of the ocean.
- OnLine resource
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EMODnet_HA_OG_Wells_20201113.zip
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
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ZIP (File Geodatabase / Shapefile)
- OnLine resource
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hydrocarbons
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OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map
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Boreholes
- OnLine resource
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emodnet:hydrocarbons
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OGC:WFS
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Boreholes
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-12-04
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Pass
- Yes
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2009-12-15
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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Data were retrived from 18 different countries. 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. 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.
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