Identification

Title

21st Century Exploration RoadMap (21CXRM) Palaeozoic Petroleum Systems Analysis Project: Overview Regional Structural, Palaeogeography and Poster Products

Abstract

GIS versions of a regional structural summary and palaeogeographic reconstructions describing the Palaeozoic geology of parts of the UK offshore and onshore, plus a set of summary posters and a summary presentation capturing the conventional petroleum systems. Devonian and Carboniferous rocks are the focus in and around the Mid North Sea High, Central North Sea, the Moray Firth and Orcadian Basin. In the greater Irish Sea area, Carboniferous rocks are described. The peer-reviewed products were produced for the 21CXRM Palaeozoic Project by BGS for DECC/OGA, Oil and Gas UK and oil company sponsors between November 2014 and May 2016, to improve regional digital datasets and knowledge of the underexplored Palaeozoic petroleum systems, and to stimulate exploration. The petroleum systems analysis was based on new interpretations of extensive well, seismic, gravity-magnetic and source rock datasets, integrated with petrophysical studies, basin modelling and UK onshore knowledge. Released data were collated and interpreted, and interpretations of unreleased data were included with agreement of the data owners. Unreleased raw data is excluded, as is the UK Government Seismic data released in 2016. The GIS layers were digitised from figures prepared for project reports and are applicable for use at scales between 1:1,000,000 and 1:3,000,000.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/energy/petroleumGeoscience/explorationRoadmap.html

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607129

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

OGP

code identifying the spatial reference system

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::23031

Additional information source

Released 23/3/17, after a confidentiality period related to the 29th Offshore Licensing round and under the Open Government License.

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

geoscientificInformation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Basin analysis

Gravity

Digital data

Devonian

Source beds

Seismic data

Petroleum geology

Magnetic data

Palaeozoic

Carboniferous

originating controlled vocabulary

title

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2011

Keyword set

keyword value

NERC_DDC

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-5.2300

East bounding longitude

2.7300

North bounding latitude

59.0000

South bounding latitude

53.2400

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

ISO 3166_1 alpha-3

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2009

code identifying the extent

GB

Extent group

authority code

title

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2010

code identifying the extent

IRISH SEA [id=2001430]

Extent group

authority code

title

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2010

code identifying the extent

NORTH SEA [id=2001452]

Extent group

authority code

title

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1979

code identifying the extent

UK [id=139300]

Extent group

authority code

title

ISO 3166_2

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2009

code identifying the extent

UKM

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1965

End position

2016

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2016

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Source data included BGS gravity, magnetic and map data, core sample data returned to BGS, well data and reports from CDA and seismic data provided under confidentiality to BGS by DECC/OGA. Oil companies also donated data. Seismic, stratigraphic, geophysical, source rock, petrophysical and basin modelling interpretation and modelling were undertaken and the results integrated with data on oil and gas shows, discoveries and fields to describe the Palaeozoic petroleum systems in conventional oil and gas. The products are a range of GIS layers, grids, images, spreadsheets and reports.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2011

degree

false

explanation

See the referenced specification

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

British Geological Survey

full postal address

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South

EDINBURGH

EH14 4AP

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 131 667 1000

email address

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

British Geological Survey

full postal address

Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth

NOTTINGHAM

NG12 5GG

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 115 936 3100

facsimile number

+44 115 936 3276

email address

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

responsible party role

distributor

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

British Geological Survey

full postal address

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South

EDINBURGH

EH14 4AP

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 131 667 1000

email address

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-05-14

Metadata language

eng