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Offshore Gas Storage (UK) - natural gas storage leases
The Crown Estate manages the UK seabed out to the 12 nautical mile territorial sea limit and, under the 2008 Energy Act, hold the rights for gas storage within the Exclusive Economic Zone Order 2013, which extends out onto the Continental Shelf. This Order incorporated the Gas Importation and Storage Zone Order 2009, which was created by the 2008 Energy Act.
Offshore natural gas storage has been taking place within UK waters, in the Rough field, since 1983. Developers of offshore projects need a storage licence (from BEIS) and a storage lease (from the Crown Estate), as set out in the 2008 Energy Act, which also explains which type of gas importation and storage projects fit into this description. Effectively the regulatory and proprietary roles are separated.
This dataset shows gas storage leases given by The Crown Estate. At this stage there are three leases, Rough, Gateway and Larne Lough. Rough acts as a storage facility for gas shippers and suppliers, allowing them to feed gas into Transco's National Transmission System when demand is at its peak, or withdraw and re-inject it into the reservoir when demand is low. Any company with a UK gas shipper licence can apply to purchase storage capacity at Rough. Gateway and Larne Lough are salt caverns. This data has been checked with the lease areas held by DECC to ensure they match.
The dataset also includes pipeline information. These TCE Agreements pipelines are related to the Natural Gas Storage sector in the United Kingdom waters. Attribute information includes name, tenant and pipeline type. The data source is the individual owner company of the infrastructure.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2017-03-30
- Date (Revision)
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-11-20
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-12-14
- Citation identifier
- a8726de7-d315-406e-b123-0bfd4a597475
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role The Crown Estate Dataset Holding Organisation The Crown Estate Originator of Dataset COGEA SRL, Business Management Consultants Author
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- no limitations to public access
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Conditions for access and use apply
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CC BY-SA 4.0
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Oceans
- Begin date
- 2014-01-31
- End date
- 2017-03-30
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- Supplemental Information
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The dataset was created with input from Jason Golder - Development Manager (CCS & Gas Storage). The Rough gas storage area is owned by Centrica. Rough acts as a storage facility for gas shippers and suppliers, allowing them to feed gas into Transco
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- WGS 1984
Spatial representation info
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Name Version Geographic Information System 1
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://cloud.emodnet-ingestion.eu/index.php/s/QB8Cw6irsVoYVK9 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/view-data.php
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Conformance result
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata
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- 2010-12-08
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See the referenced specification
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Conformance result
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Corrigendum to INSPIRE Metadata Regulation published in the Official Journal of the European Union, L 328, page 83
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- 2010-12-08
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See the referenced specification
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Conformance result
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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- 2010-12-08
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See the referenced specification
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Metadata
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- a8726de7-d315-406e-b123-0bfd4a597475 XML
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- English
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- UTF8
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- Dataset
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- 2025-05-09T00:00:00
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
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1.0
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Oceanographic Data Centre Point of contact
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