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EMODnet Human Activities, Oil and Gas, Active Licences

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.

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Date (Publication)
2014-06-30
Date (Revision)
2025-02-17
Date (Creation)
2014-06-24
Citation identifier
EMODnet_HA_OG_ActiveLicences_20250217
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Cogea srl

lfalco@cogea.it

apititto@cogea.it

Author

Cyprus - Ministry of Energy, Commerce and Industry - Hydrocarbons Service

nmarkou@meci.gov.cy

hydrocarbons@meci.gov.cy

Resource provider

Spain - Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico - Archivo Técnico de Hidrocarburos

informacionma@miteco.es

Resource provider

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

Resource provider

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

Resource provider

Norway - Norwegian Petroleum Directorate

FactWeb@npd.no

Resource provider

Netherlands - TNO – Geological Survey of the Netherlands

info@nlog.nl

Resource provider

Denmark - Danish Energy Agency

rk@ens.dk

yde@ens.dk

Resource provider

Italy - Ministero dell'ambiente e della sicurezza energetica - Direzione generale fonti energetiche e titoli abilitativi

fta@pec.mase.gov.it

Resource provider

Portugal - Direção-Geral de Energia e Geologia

josemiguel.martins@dgeg.pt

paula.dinis@dgeg.gov.pt

patricia.fale@dgeg.gov.pt

Resource provider

Germany - Landesamt fur Bergbau, Energie und Geologie

Hans-Juergen.Brauner@lbeg.niedersachsen.de

Resource provider

Malta - Ministry for Finance - Continental Shelf Department

charles.a.galea@gov.mt

Resource provider

Croatia - Croatian Hydrocarbon Agency

igor.turcin@azu.hr

Resource provider

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Energy resources

  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

GEMET - Themes, version 2.4

  • energy

GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1

  • hydrocarbon

  • oil exploration

  • oil extraction

  • offshore drilling

  • oil production (chain)

  • non-renewable energy resource

  • natural gas extraction

  • natural gas exploration

Use limitation

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.

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Other restrictions
Other constraints

no limitation

Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
100000
Language
English
Topic category
  • Planning cadastre
  • Utilities communication
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Reference system identifier
EPSG:4326
Reference system identifier
ISO 19108 calendar
Distribution format
Name Version

unknown

unknown

Transfer size
0
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities

EMODnet Human Activities

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map

https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wms?

activelicenses

OGC:WFS

https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs?

emodnet:activelicenses

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/d9da64ae-4bff-4cae-9ee8-58d9acc1d0fe/attachments/EMODnet_HA_OG_ActiveLicences_20250217.zip

EMODnet_HA_OG_ActiveLicences_20250217.zip

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2008-12-04
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Pass
Yes

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2009-12-15
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Pass
Yes
Statement

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.

Metadata

File identifier
d9da64ae-4bff-4cae-9ee8-58d9acc1d0fe XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-02-26T10:48:15.541746Z
Metadata standard name

ISO19115

Metadata standard version

2003/Cor.1:2006

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Cogea srl

luigi.falco@bip-group.com

Point of contact
 
 

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