North Sea Oil and Gas Platform Gridded Data, 2011-2012

Georeferenced data of oil and gas platforms in the North Sea for 2011-2012, produced by the Government Digital Service. The dataset consists of gridded ASCII text files from 2015-2016 at three spatial resolutions (0.1, 0.25, and 0.5 decimal degrees), with values representing the estimated proportion of each grid cell occupied by structures. It was derived as model inputs for Cefas projects under the INSITE programme.

Use Cases

• Modeling the spatial footprint of offshore infrastructure based on gridded proportion data.
• Assessing potential environmental impacts of oil and gas platforms in the North Sea based on their estimated coverage.
• Supporting marine spatial planning by analyzing the concentration of man-made structures in specific grid cells.
• Providing baseline data for studies on the influence of structures on marine ecosystems (INSITE programme).

Strengths

• Data is provided at three distinct spatial resolutions (0.1, 0.25, and 0.5 decimal degrees), offering flexibility for analysis.
• Values represent a specific, modeled metric: the estimated proportion of each grid cell occupied by structures.
• Data was produced for specific, named research projects (COSM and EcoConnect) under the INSITE programme.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Derived as model inputs for Cefas projects.

Time Range

2011-2012

Freshness

Data produced 2015-2016, covering 2011-2012. Last platform update unknown.

Geography

North Sea