Licensed block relinquishments in the UK Continental Shelf, with links to PDF relinquishment reports. The dataset is provided by the North Sea Transition Authority and was last updated on 2026-06-18. It is available in multiple formats including XLSX, CSV, and GEOJSON.
Use Cases
- Mapping historical petroleum exploration activity based on relinquished licence block locations.
- Analyzing regulatory compliance and licence lifecycle based on relinquishment reports.
- Assessing regional exploration trends in the UK Continental Shelf based on block data.
Strengths
- Data is provided by the authoritative regulatory body, the North Sea Transition Authority.
- Offers multiple file formats including GEOJSON and KML for geospatial analysis.
- Includes links to detailed PDF relinquishment reports for further investigation.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- North Sea Transition Authority
- Collection Method
- Likely compiled from official petroleum licensing records.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-18 11:12:36.456513; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- UK Continental Shelf (UKCS)