CNOOC fined £125,000 as crackdown on excessive flaring and venting continues Press releases and announcements The North Sea Transition Authority has imposed a penalty of £125,000 on CNOOC for venting without consent at its Buzzard field on two separate occasions in the space of a fortnight. 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
Development - Exploration and production The development phase of the oil and gas life cycle covers the period after an economic discovery has been made and details the processes required to take the discovery up to, but before, the production phase. View more
NSTA convenes collaborative workshop on platform electrification to cut North Sea emissions Press releases and announcements The NSTA gathered leading operators and technology companies for a workshop in Aberdeen today (20th February) to help industry unlock brownfield projects which would enable existing platforms to run on clean electricity. View more