OGA Licences WGS84: UK Onshore and Offshore Petroleum Licence Boundaries

Licence boundaries covering both onshore and offshore UK taken directly from the North Sea Transition Authority's Petroleum E-business, Assignment and Relinquishment System (PEARS). The dataset was last updated on 2026-07-08 and is available in multiple geospatial formats including CSV, GEOJSON, and KML. It is published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Map the spatial distribution of active petroleum licences based on the described licence boundaries.
• Analyze the overlap of offshore and onshore energy development areas based on the geospatial coverage.
• Support regulatory compliance and environmental impact assessments using the authoritative licence data from PEARS.

Strengths

• Data is sourced directly from the authoritative UK regulator's Petroleum E-business, Assignment and Relinquishment System (PEARS).
• Covers both onshore and offshore UK areas, providing a complete national picture.
• Available in multiple standard geospatial formats (CSV, GEOJSON, KML, WFS, WMS, ESRI REST) for interoperability.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

North Sea Transition Authority (formerly Oil and Gas Authority)

Collection Method

Extracted directly from the Petroleum E-business, Assignment and Relinquishment System (PEARS).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:07.264679; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom (onshore and offshore)