The North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) launched the UK's second carbon storage licensing round on 9 December. It offers 14 areas for application across the Southern, Central, and Northern North Sea, English Channel, and East Irish Sea. The areas comprise a mixture of saline aquifers and depleted oil and gas field storage opportunities.
Use Cases
- Map potential carbon storage sites based on the 14 offered geospatial areas.
- Analyze regional distribution of storage opportunities based on the described saline aquifers and depleted fields.
- Support licensing application processes for the described second carbon storage round.
Strengths
- Data is provided by the authoritative North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA).
- Covers 14 distinct geospatial areas across multiple UK offshore regions.
- Includes multiple file formats (GEOJSON, KML, GPKG) suitable for GIS analysis.
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; last update is listed as 2026-06-18.
Provenance
- Source
- North Sea Transition Authority
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-18 11:11:01.334615
- Geography
- UK Continental Shelf (Southern North Sea, Central North Sea, Northern North Sea, English Channel, East Irish Sea)