DTI Strategic Environmental Assessment Area 7 (SEA7) geological metadata

Holmes, Richard; Fraser, Jan; Gunn, Vikki; Henni, Paul; Jacobs, Colin; Shannon, Pat; Unnithan, Vikram. 2002 DTI Strategic Environmental Assessment Area 7 (SEA7) geological metadata. Edinburgh, UK, British Geological Survey, 123pp. (CR/02/275N) (Unpublished)

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Abstract/Summary

The Department of Trade and Industry Offshore Environment and Decommissioning, Licensing and Consents Unit (hereafter DTI) is responsible to the UK government for administering environmental legislation applicable to the oil, gas and renewable energy industry offshore. One such piece of legislation is EC Directive (2001/42/EEC). The EC Directive is generic and wide ranging ‘on the assessment of the effects and certain plans and programs on the environment.’ The activities regulated include seismic surveys, drilling, other seabed development operations and the decommissioning of offshore development structures. The programme of DTI Strategic Environmental Assessments is aimed at regional assessments of the possible impacts of offshore developments prior to new licensing rounds. The information from the strategic environmental surveys is therefore required to provide the technical basis on whether or not to grant commercial licences and consents for new offshore developments in the energy sector. The objective of this research is to consider the scope of geological data that may contribute to the technical basis for the strategic environmental assessments: 1. Synopsis 2. Methods 3. Sources of metadata: scope, in terms of geography and type, where the original data is stored, the quality, issues of costs and licensing 4. Metadata The area of study extends offshore from the coastlines of Scotland and Northern Ireland and across the NE Atlantic Ocean to the western limits of the UK exclusive zone (Figure 1). The seabed habitats are truly oceanic seawards of the shelfbreak and are currently within the category of frontier research areas. The main part of this BGS report was completed in November 2002 and is supplemented by separately commissioned reports: 1. July 2003, the geological model for seabed mounds in the UK SEA7 and the Irish Sector (Unnithan, V. and Shannon, P. 2003. SEA7 Geology. Report Marine and Petroleum Geology Research Group. Dublin: Department of Geology, University College). 2. August 2003, summary of data that crosses the UK side of the SEA 6, 7 and 8 boundaries to approximately 50km within the Irish border (Wheeler, A. 2003. UK-Irish border public domain geological survey metadata. (Cork: University College, Department of Geology and Environmental Research )): inserted as Appendix 3 TAPPIN, D. R., WHEELER, A., ROWLANDS, K., JENKINS, G. AND SLATER, M. 2001. DTI Strategic Environmental Assessment Area 6 (SEA 6) Geological Metadata. British Geological Survey 3. Commissioned Report,CR/02/287. 17pp. The reports listed above update some of the references compiled by the BGS in November 2002.

Item Type:	Publication - Report
Programmes:	BGS Programmes > Other
Funders/Sponsors:	British Geological Survey, Department of Trade and Industry
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	This item has been internally reviewed, but not externally peer-reviewed.
Date made live:	02 Oct 2024 12:15 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/538154

Item Type:

Publication - Report

Programmes:

BGS Programmes > Other

Funders/Sponsors:

British Geological Survey, Department of Trade and Industry

Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:

This item has been internally reviewed, but not externally peer-reviewed.

Date made live:

02 Oct 2024 12:15 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/538154