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Exploration and Production in the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS) Region

In recent years, Acquisition and Divestment activity has redefined the North Sea and UKCS. Government initiatives and flexible, innovative licensing have successfully attracted new entrants including small independents and niche players who are reinvigorating the region with a variety of new E&P strategies.  more

A brief geological look at the region

The main good quality reservoirs are the Triassic Sherwood sandstones overlain by Mercia Mudstone group evaporites and shales forming a good seal.  Carboniferous (organic rich mudstones and coals, e.g. algally derived high TOC Visean shales) and Jurassic sediments are potential hydrocarbon source rocks and an active petroleum system is confirmed not only by the fields in Morecambe and Liverpool Bay but also by seeps onshore in North Wales and Lancashire. more

Subsurface Data Solutions for the United Kingdom Continental Shelf.

IHS can help you access detailed data and comprehensive studies and maps of the region.
IHS is the official data release agent for the UK Government, producing basic and value added products for the hydrocarbon exploration and production industry. Our accurate, detailed data products for the region include:

• Subsurface data including scanned images, a formation pressure database, a well attributes database and over 4000 digital merged wireline data sets.
• Fields (both developed and undeveloped): including remaining reserves, production data, geology, hydrocarbon composition, field location, contracts ownership information, field outlines and illustrations.
• Reservoirs: covering depths and potential reserves.
• Well data: reporting on current and historic wells; drilling history, technical and content status, depths, elevations, tests, casings, cores, bottom-hole formation, age and well locations.

The subsurface group has a proven capability to take raw well data, and process it into meaningful workstation-ready formats by applying interpretation where needed. As one of the most comprehensive, accessible, and up-to-date sources of subsurface data, IHS offers you major benefits in terms of  ready to use and accurate data; reduced time searching for or manipulating information; standardised, formatted and, in some cases, reinterpreted data to assist your evaluations.

Basin Monitors

• Anglo-Dutch Basin
• Anglo-Paris Basin
• Celtic Sea Graben System
• Central Graben Province
• Cheshire Basin
• East Irish Sea Basin
• East Shetland Platform
• Faroes-Shetland Trough
• Mid North Sea High
• Moray Firth Province
• More Basin
• Pennine High
• Viking Graben Province
• West Shetland Basin
• Western Approaches Basin

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Maps

• United Kingdom Onshore (Issue Date: Nov 2005 Scale 1: 850000).
• West of Shetland & Atlantic Margin (Issue Date: Aug 2005 Scale 1: 500000).
• Southern Gas Basin (Issue Date: Aug 2005 Scale 1: 300000).
• England-North Sheet (Issue Date: Nov 2005 Scale 1: 250000).
• Central Graben Area (Issue Date: Aug 2005 Scale 1: 250000).
• Irish Sea (Issue Date: Aug 2005 Scale 1: 250000).
• Magnus Basin and Northern North Sea (Issue Date: Aug 2005 Scale 1: 250000).
• Moray Firth (Issue Date: Aug 2005 Scale 1: 250000).
• England - South Sheet (Issue Date: Nov 2005 Scale 1: 250000).
• Viking Graben Area (Issue Date: Aug 2005 Scale 1: 250000).
• South West Approaches/English Channel (Issue Date: Aug 2005 Scale 1: 75000).

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And finally

• Discover new opportunities with our news, scouting service and maps with GEPS.
• Identify concise business reports and verify the legal, fiscal and contractual terms of a country with PEPS.
• Review the latest developments in the region with the IHS consistent, reliable data on oil, gas and condensate production with Monthly Production Database.