OGA contracts aim at boosting UKCS work

Aug. 7, 2018
The UK Oil & Gas Authority has awarded a series of contracts to support work designed to boost exploration of the UK Continental Shelf. Under a contract funding the first year of the 4-year UKCS Petroleum Systems Project, a combine of Lloyd’s Register and IGI Ltd. will compile a database of geochemical data acquired across the UKCS over the past 5 decades.

The UK Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) has awarded a series of contracts to support work designed to boost exploration of the UK Continental Shelf.

Under a contract funding the first year of the 4-year UKCS Petroleum Systems Project, a combine of Lloyd’s Register and IGI Ltd. will compile a database of geochemical data acquired across the UKCS over the past 5 decades.

The database will include the provision of sample information and analysis from legacy well-sampling databases maintained by the British Geological Survey for the OGA.

The geochemical and supporting geological databases will become available to the industry and academia.

The OGA let a separate contract to Ikon Science to evaluate the rock physics and seismic amplitude responses of underexplored Jurassic and Triassic plays of the Central North Sea and East Shetland basin.

Findings will be made available before the 32nd Mature Licensing Round scheduled in mid-2019.

The OGA also is working with Agile Scientific to provide free geocomputing training in Aberdeen and London in the third quarter of the year.

Also with Agile Scientific, the OGA will host two machine-learning “boot camps and subsurface hackathons” in Aberdeen and London in November.