13 new areas for carbon storage licensing were launched by the North Sea Transition Authority on 14 June 2024. The dataset likely contains geospatial boundaries for saline aquifers and depleted oil and gas fields off the coasts of Aberdeen, Teesside, Liverpool, and Lincolnshire. It was published by the Government Digital Service and last updated on 2024-01-24.
Use Cases
- Map potential carbon storage sites based on the described saline aquifers and depleted oil and gas fields.
- Analyze the spatial distribution of CCS opportunities relative to the UK's 2030 storage target.
- Identify licensing areas for commercial application based on the geospatial boundaries.
Strengths
- Defines 13 specific areas for the UK's first-ever carbon storage licensing round.
- Links to a concrete national target of storing 20-30 million tonnes of CO2 by 2030.
- Provides geospatial data in multiple formats (GEOJSON, KML, CSV).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Freshness should be verified; the data was last updated in January 2024.
Provenance
- Source
- North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA)
- Freshness
- Last updated 2024-01-24 17:00:04
- Geography
- Offshore UK: Southern North Sea, Central North Sea, Northern North Sea, and East Irish Sea.