19 Nov 2024 Regulating to deliver decommissioning: Pauline Innes' speech at the Offshore Decommissioning Conference
Gas storage and unloading The North Sea Transition Authority (the “NSTA”), pursuant to the Energy Act 2008 (the “Act”) is the licensing authority for offshore gas storage and offshore gas unloading. View more
Technology Insights 2022 - Digital & Data Digital and Data Category has seen the largest growth of all the categories, The largest expansion of technologies in any sub-category is “Modelling & Analytics” has seen dramatic growth in 2022 data with multiple operator adoptions on multiple assets. View more
NSTA Technology Survey & Insights 2023 For decades, the UK North Sea has been a testbed for pioneering technologies used to produce billions of barrels of North Sea Oil & Gas, underpinning the UK’s energy security, and now with the energy transition we are actively... View more
Carbon capture and storage Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is critical to the UK achieving net zero – government aims to capture and store 20-30 million tonnes of CO2 per year by 2030 and over 50 million tonnes/yr by 2035. View more
North Sea Transition Steering Group The North Sea Transition Steering Group is co-chaired by the NSTA and industry. They meet quarterly and agree topics to be discussed at the North Sea Transition Forum, have oversight of the Task Forces and provides assurance on the delivery of their activities. View more
Technology Insights - Well Plugging & Abandonment Well P&A is showing a significant increase in reported numbers of technologies in 2023, from a low base in 2020. View more
Types of licence The licensing regime is designed to maximise the economic recovery of UK offshore oil and gas. View more
Area Plans An Area Plan is a cross licence/ cross Hub collaborative framework to ensure economic recovery of oil and gas, whilst supporting the drive to net zero carbon by 2050, in a particular geographical area of the UKCS, based on the analysis of evidence. View more