NSTA - TCE Leases & Licences: North Sea Energy Licensing Map

North Sea Transition Authority provides a PDF map showing the interaction of NSTA licences with those issued by The Crown Estate. The dataset is served via an ArcGIS GeoServices REST API and HTML formats. It was last updated on 2026-06-18.

Use Cases

• Visualize spatial overlaps between different energy licensing authorities based on the map description.
• Analyze marine area management for energy projects based on the described licence interactions.
• Support regulatory compliance checks for offshore activities based on the described licensing data.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative North Sea Transition Authority.
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded as 2026-06-18 11:14:04.382966.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

North Sea Transition Authority

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-18 11:14:04.382966; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely covers UK North Sea areas under NSTA and The Crown Estate jurisdiction.