Annual Consents Exercise This page contains information regarding the Annual Consents Exercise (“ACE”) in the following sections: View more
Exploration and production - Onshore - Licensing regime The NSTA operates a licensing regime that gives companies exclusive rights to search, bore for and get petroleum. Petroleum licences are issued after a competitive process, usually a licensing round. View more
UKCS Regional Projects One of the key actions of the Wood Report was that Government and Industry should together create an up-to-date, readily accessible, digital perspective on the prospectivity and geology of the UKCS. View more
Wells - Consents The NSTA grants licences that confer exclusive rights to ‘search and bore for and get petroleum’. View more
Pipeline Works Authorisations The Consents and Authorisations team is part of the Regulation directorate and prepare, authorise, and issue formal consents and authorisations to enable oil and gas fields to be developed and hydrocarbons produced. View more
Exploration Data The NSTA is committed to improving access to quality data to revitalise exploration of oil and gas across the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). View more
Taxation The tax regime which applies to exploration for, and production of, oil and gas in the UK and on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) currently comprises the following four elements, described briefly in turn below: View more
Carbon storage licence transfer and change in control approach Under the terms of a CS Licence, licensees have the right, with the consent of the NSTA, to transfer (either in whole or partially) their rights under the licence to another company or arrange a change in control of the licensee. Download
