Identification

Title

Carbon capture storage defining boundary of policy CCS1 in the East Inshore and East Offshore marine plans

Alternative title(s)

East_Marine_Plan_Policy_CCS1

East Marine Plan Policy CCS1

Abstract

This dataset has been created to define potential opportunity for carbon capture and storage (CCS1) as shown in the MMO East Inshore and East Offshore marine plans. The data has been derived from Hydrocarbon Fields (UK Deal) and Aquifer Structures (British Geological Survey). The hydrocarbon field's dataset identifies active and inactive oil and gas fields, a selection was made to identify those fields either in production or no longer in production (identified due to the existing infrastructure present). Due to the high concentration of existing fields within the East Marine Plan area it provides the greatest opportunity for Carbon Capture Storage. These fields were then combined with saline aquifers as defined in the BGS dataset to identify areas for potential opportunities of CCS. The sites identified in this dataset are not currently being used for Carbon Capture Storage (CCS), they have been identified as an indication of potential areas.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://environment.data.gov.uk/ds/catalogue/#/487847e2adfae9e29c14d30cc437d500

description: A link to the web service or dataset

http://environment.data.gov.uk/ds/catalogue/index.jsp#/catalogue

description: A link to the general host site

Unique resource identifier

code

MMO1500054

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4258

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

planningCadastre

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2008-01-06

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2009-11-16

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2011-02-16

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2013-06-13

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2014-08-08

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

0.4003

East bounding longitude

3.0737

North bounding latitude

54.7486

South bounding latitude

52.8764

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1954-01-01

code identifying the extent

North Sea

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2014-05-16

code identifying the extent

IVc

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2014-05-16

code identifying the extent

IVb

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2014-04-02

End position

2020-04-02

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2015-03-31

date type

creation

effective date

2014-04-02

date type

revision

effective date

2014-04-02

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

Please note the following limitations and caveats to this dataset: Whilst saline aquifers represent significant potential for trapping buoyant fluids such as CO2, there are a number of possible limitations to using them in this way. 1. There are potential permeability barriers within the formation in various parts of the Southern North Sea Basin such as faults (which may act as intra-reservoir seals) which are clearly imaged on seismic surveys; 2. It is difficult to demonstrate that firstly the saline aquifer will not leak and secondly that significant masses of CO2 can be injected into them. Although the Bunter Sandstone is, in regional terms, sealed by the overlying Haisborough Group mudstones and halites, there are crestal faults on many of the domes and it is uncertain whether, or at what pore fluid pressure, these might leak; 3. The integrity and injectivity of individual structures cannot be estimated from the data available for the BGS study. If 3D seismic data was available and licensed, and well test data was available, it could provide a much more detailed view of the potential of an individual structure but it still would not be able to provide any guarantees about either injectivity or integrity. This could only be proved or disproved by field injection tests.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence. Acknowledgement of the Marine Management Organisation is required.

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

No limitations on access, however copyright should be used at all times.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Data/GIS Officer

organisation name

Marine Management Organisation

email address

dkm@marinemanagement.org.uk

responsible party role

originator

Responsible party

contact position

Data/GIS Officer

organisation name

Marine Management Organisation

email address

dkm@marinemanagement.org.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Data/GIS Officer

organisation name

Marine Management Organisation

email address

dkm@marinemanagement.org.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2016-04-14

Metadata language