14 carbon storage areas are being offered for licensing by the North Sea Transition Authority. The areas are located in the Southern, Central, and Northern North Sea, the English Channel, and the East Irish Sea. This dataset, last updated in June 2026, includes a mixture of saline aquifers and depleted oil and gas field storage opportunities.
Use Cases
- Site selection for carbon storage projects based on the offered licensing areas.
- Geospatial analysis of potential storage capacity across different geological formations.
- Policy and market analysis for the UK's energy transition based on the licensing round details.
Strengths
- Covers 14 distinct areas offered for licensing.
- Includes multiple geological storage types: saline aquifers and depleted oil and gas fields.
- Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOJSON, KML, and GPKG.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Freshness should be verified as the last update date is in the future (2026-06-18).
Provenance
- Source
- North Sea Transition Authority
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-18 11:11:01.908707
- Geography
- Southern North Sea, Central North Sea, Northern North Sea, English Channel, East Irish Sea