d9da64ae-4bff-4cae-9ee8-58d9acc1d0fe English Cogea Srl luigi.falco@bip-group.com 2026-02-16T16:45:43.841365Z ISO19115 2003/Cor.1:2006 EPSG:4326 ISO 19108 calendar EMODnet Human Activities, Oil and Gas, Active Licences 2014-06-30 2026-02-16 2014-06-24 EMODnet_HA_OG_ActiveLicences_20260216 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, France, 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. At present, there are no active licenced areas in Portuguese waters, and no information is available regarding other countries. Cogea Srl luigi.falco@bip-group.com Cyprus - Ministry of Energy, Commerce and Industry - Hydrocarbons Service nmarkou@meci.gov.cy hydrocarbons@meci.gov.cy Spain - Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico - Archivo Técnico de Hidrocarburos informacionma@miteco.es France - Direction Generale de l'energie et du Climat (DGEC) - Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres (BRGM) - Minergies minergies@brgm.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 yde@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 paula.dinis@dgeg.gov.pt patricia.fale@dgeg.gov.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 https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/d9da64ae-4bff-4cae-9ee8-58d9acc1d0fe/attachments/activelics.jpg Energy resources Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2012-07-20 energy GEMET - Themes, version 2.4 2010-01-13 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 2012-07-20 100000 English planningCadastre utilitiesCommunication -13.4 34.9333333300001 32.9930555600001 74.2500000000001 No limitations on public access Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This data was downloaded from the EMODnet Portal (https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/). The data originator is Cogea Srl. 0 https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities WWW:LINK EMODnet Human Activities 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. The portal makes available information such as geographical position, spatial extent of a series of activities related to the sea, their temporal variation, time when data was provided, and attributes to indicate the intensity of each activity. The data are aggregated and presented so as to preserve personal privacy and commercially-sensitive information. The data also include a time interval so that historic as well as current activities can be included. https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wms? OGC:WMS activelicenses Active Licences https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs? OGC:WFS emodnet:activelicenses Active Licences https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/d9da64ae-4bff-4cae-9ee8-58d9acc1d0fe/attachments/EMODnet_HA_OG_ActiveLicences_20260216.zip WWW:DOWNLOAD EMODnet_HA_OG_ActiveLicences_20260216.zip ZIP (File Geodatabase / Shapefile) Esri geodatabase gco:nilReason="unknown"> Esri shapefile gco:nilReason="unknown"> COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata 2008-12-04 See the referenced specification true Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 See the referenced specification Corrigendum to INSPIRE Metadata Regulation published in the Official Journal of the European Union, L 328, page 83 2009-12-15 See the referenced specification true Data were retrived from different national 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.