UKCS Seeps Database

<div style='direction: ltr;'><p style='text-align: justify; color: windowtext; text-indent: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;'><span style='line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>The  NSTA has purchased </span></span><span style='line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>CGG’s NPA Satellite Mapping (NPA) </span></span><span style='line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>database for the UKCS for publication. The UK </span></span><span style='line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>database is composed of 983 individual</span></span><span style='line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>ly interpreted satellite images,</span></span><span style='line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'> </span></span><span style='line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>which </span></span><span style='line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>form between a 10x and 20x temporal coverage, with 20x coverage for the majority of</span></span><span style='line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'> the North Sea.</span></span><span style='line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'> </span></span><span style='line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>The </span></span><span style='line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>NPA </span></span><span style='line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>methodology </span></span><span style='line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>use</span></span><span style='line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>s</span></span><span style='line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'> multiple temporal snapshots in order to reduce interpretation ambiguities, account for the episodic nature of seepage and </span></span><span style='line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>provides an interpretation of </span></span><span style='line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>temporally repeating oil slick sites.</span></span><span style='line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'> </span><span style='line-height: 19.42px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></p></div><div style='direction: ltr;'><p style='text-align: justify; color: windowtext; text-indent: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;'><span style='line-height: 19.42px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>The release of the seeps database </span></span><span style='line-height: 19.42px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>comes with documentation from CGG on how best to access and utilise the data and the end user is encouraged to read these in conjunction with the downloaded data.</span></span><span style='line-height: 19.42px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></p></div><div style='direction: ltr;'><p style='text-align: justify; color: windowtext; text-indent: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;'><span style='line-height: 19.42px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>These data are being released under the NSTA’s </span></span><a href='https://www.ogauthority.co.uk/site-tools/access-to-information/' style='color: inherit; text-decoration: none;' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'><span style='color: rgb(0, 0, 255); line-height: 19.42px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: underline;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>User Licence Agreement</span></span></a><span style='line-height: 19.42px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'> which enables use of the data by the end user but does not permit any commercial gain to be made from having access to these data</span></span><span style='line-height: 19.42px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'> unless permission has been</span></span><span style='line-height: 19.42px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'> granted by CGG</span></span><span style='line-height: 19.42px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>. Ownership of the data </span></span><span style='line-height: 19.42px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>and </span></span><span style='line-height: 19.42px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>full Intellectual Property Rights</span></span><span style='line-height: 19.42px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'> reside with CGG</span></span><span style='line-height: 19.42px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'><span style='background-color: inherit;'>.</span></span><span style='line-height: 19.42px; font-family: Arial,Arial_MSFontService,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></p></div>

Tags: Exploration, NSTA, Petroleum Licensing Round
Organization: North Sea Transition Authority