Datasets

Open UKCS datasets brought together for marine screening.

Offshore Data Atlas combines public reference datasets from NSTA, UKHO, BGS, MDE, TCE, CES, JNCC, NatureScot, EMODnet, OSPAR, Historic England, KIS-ORCA, Cefas WaveNet, Met Office, and Copernicus Marine.

Energy, licensing, and infrastructure

NSTA wellsWell locations, status, operator, water depth, and depth attributes where available. NSTA seismic surveys and lines2D and 3D seismic survey outlines and line datasets from the NSTA NDR open data route. The Crown Estate offshore wind and marine energyOffshore wind sites, export cable corridors, wave, tidal, CCS, gas storage, and marine aggregate context. Crown Estate Scotland ScotWind and offshore energyScotWind, INTOG, offshore wind, cables, pipelines, aquaculture, wave, tidal, and related seabed interests. KIS-ORCA subsea cablesSubsea cable routes and offshore asset points for spatial awareness and early screening.

Survey, seabed, and geology

UKHO public bathymetryPublic bathymetric survey extents and links back to official UKHO/ADMIRALTY access routes. BGS boreholes and coresOffshore geotechnical sample points from the BGS GeoIndex Offshore data. BGS offshore geologyBedrock lithology, Quaternary deposits, and Quaternary deposit thickness layers. MDE geophysical and geotechnical surveysFiltered Marine Data Exchange series extents for existing public geophysical and geotechnical survey discovery. EMODnet marine dataSeabed substrate, geomorphology, lithology, habitats, vessel density, and dumped munitions layers.

Environment, hazards, and metocean

UK offshore protected areasJNCC UK offshore MPAs and NatureScot Scottish marine protected areas. Wrecks and munitionsUKHO wrecks, protected wreck sites, OSPAR munitions encounters, and EMODnet dumped munitions. Metocean and marine weather dataWaveNet observations, Met Office marine observations and AMM15 model data, and Copernicus Marine time series.

Beyond the UK

The atlas also carries open offshore data from Norway, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, France, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Browse the data by country.

Main atlas themes

Bathymetry, survey coverage, geotechnical data, and interpreted geology.
Energy leasing, petroleum licensing, wells, pipelines, cables, and offshore infrastructure.
Geophysical, seismic, protected area, habitat, vessel density, wreck, and munitions datasets.
WaveNet, Met Office, and Copernicus Marine observations and modelled metocean data.