Oil & Gas Installations

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Oil & Gas Installations

Layer Info
Category	Activities
Sub-category	Energy

Description

The North Sea has become western Europe’s most important oil and gas production area, yielding high-quality crude oil with a low-sulfur content. The use of space for oil and gas extraction requires continuing attention. No shipping or other use is allowed in a 500-metre zone around the platforms. This places local restrictions on the fishing industry, shipping and recreation (craft). It is not permitted to drag fishing nets over the seabed and in the water column in this security zone. When choosing the location for a drilling platform, shipping and other uses must be taken into account. In clearways for shipping, mining activities are, in principle, not permitted. However, most of the interaction is with wind energy areas, especially with regard to helicopter safety zones.

MSP Challenge

Oil & Gas Installations is a static data layer. They are points that you can place, edit or remove when making a plan.

Oil & gas installations create the following pressures on the ecosystem:

• Artificial substrate
• Noise
• Surface disturbance
• Bottom disturbance

None of the three fishing fleets (bottom trawl, drift and fixed nets, industrial and pelagic trawl) fish at oil & gas installations.

Types

• Operational (100MW)
• Decommissioned (0MW)
• Closed (0MW)
• Other (0MW)

Metadata

Data Source

Enter data source for North Sea here.

Original Title

Enter name of the layer at the North Sea source.

Description

Enter the description of the North Sea dataset here.

Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd North Sea

Methodology

Enter here how the layer was prepared to be integrated into the MSP Challenge North Sea Edition.

Types

• Operational (0MW)
• Decommissioned (0MW)
• Closed (0MW)
• Other (0MW)

Metadata

Data Source

HELCOM HOLAS II dataset: Oil platforms

Original Title

Oil platforms

Description

"This dataset contains point data describing the location of oil platforms in the Baltic Sea.

The dataset is complete in Baltic sea coverage as it contains two known oil platforms."

Description retrieved from HELCOM's metadata page for this resource (2021-07-19).

Creation Date

2016-04-06

Methodology

The layer was implemented without modifications.

Types

Clyde Marine Region types here

Metadata

Data Source

Enter data source for Clyde Marine Region here.

Original Title

Enter name of the layer at the Clyde Marine Region source.

Description

Enter the description of the Clyde Marine Region dataset here.

Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd Clyde Marine Region

Methodology

Enter here how the layer was prepared to be integrated into the MSP Challenge Clyde Marine Region Edition.

Types

• Operational
• Closed

Metadata

Data Source

Enter data source for Adriatic Sea here.

Original Title

Enter name of the layer at the source.

Description

Enter the description of the Adriatic Sea dataset here.

Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd Adriatic Sea

Methodology

Enter here how the layer was prepared to be integrated into the MSP Challenge.