10 Sept 2025 Regulatory Completion Date (RCD) And Earliest Disclosure Date Tracker for UKCS Petroleum Wellbores
02 Sept 2025 Emissions down by a third since 2018, but bold action needed to secure industry’s role in transition
UKCS Production Efficiency in 2017 Production efficiency (PE) has risen for a fifth consecutive year. In 2017 it reached 74%, driving increased production in the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS) Download
Historic estimates of Oil and Gas Reserves and Contingent Resources 1973 to 2023 as at September 2024 Download
Asset stewardship Benchmarking Benchmarking is integral to the asset stewardship process and is helping to drive significant performance improvements in cost, production efficiency, wells and project performance and decommissioning. 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
Seismic acquisition In the 2015 and 2016 budget announcement, the NSTA received £20 million of funding from HM Treasury to support the acquisition and processing of new 2D seismic data in some of the underexplored areas of the UKCS. View more
Licence assignments and relinquishments A company that is party to a licence may wish to sell its interest, or a part of it, to another company. It requires the NSTA ’s prior consent to do so. View more
