Exploration
- Regulatory information
- Licensing and consents
- Guidance
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Exploration and production
- Overview
- Asset stewardship
- Exploration
- Development
- Production
- Onshore
- Petroleum operations notices
- Taxation
- Area Plans
- Wells
- Regulatory framework
- Gas storage and unloading
- Supporting the supply chain
- Decommissioning and repurposing
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Technology
- Technology stewardship
- NSTA Technology Survey & Insights 2023
- NSTA Technology Survey & Insights 2022
- TLB
- UKCS Technology Network
- Useful contacts
- Wells Insight Report
- NSTA Technology Survey & Insights 2024
- Carbon storage
Working with industry and government to revitalise exploration is a priority for the NSTA.
Successful discoveries ultimately lead to the new field developments and additional production needed to support the UK’s energy demands as we transition to net zero by 2050.
More than 45.9 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) have been produced from the UKCS and significant reserves and resources are estimated to remain.