2005 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA6 Irish gas data review

This report is a contribution to the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA6) conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change). The study area dealt with in this report includes all of the Irish Sea that falls within Irish Jurisdiction. The report is intended to complement a similar study of UK waters in the Irish Sea undertaken as part of the UK Government's Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA6). The aim of this report is to present an up-to-date overview of all relevant data concerning methane-derived authigenic carbonate and features associated with shallow gas and seabed fluid flow in the Irish sector of the western Irish Sea. It presents a detailed assessment of potential gas sources and migration pathways, shallow gas, gas-related seabed structures and evidence of present day gas seepage in the study area.

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Date (Publication)
2005-01-01
Citation identifier
British Geological Survey / BGS_SEA_76
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey (BGS)

Paul Henni

offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk

Custodian

Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

enquiries@decc.gsi.gov.uk

Originator
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
Resource format
Name Version

Documents
Keywords

SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Energy resources

  • Geology

SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
Use limitation

The SEAs data were produced as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme; Crown Copyright, all rights reserved. The DECC SEA must be acknowledged in any maps or publications that make use of the data. All the data files are freely available to the public. The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal provides free access to available data and reports which have been produced through the SEA process. The site is run and managed by BGS on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Many files can be downloaded directly from this website. Those that are too large to download can be ordered via the website for postal delivery from BGS. BGS (NERC) has been contracted by DECC to publish SEA datasets on its behalf. All intellectual property rights (including , without limitation, copyrights, database rights and all other rights which subsist or may at any time in the future subsist in the Dataset(s)) in the Dataset(s) ('Intellectual Property Rights') are owned by DECC (formerly the Department of Trade and Industry, and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform). BGS has been authorised by DECC to use SEA datasets for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit basis'. BGS has been authorised by DECC to pass on SEA datasets to third parties so that they can use them for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit' basis.

Access constraints
Intellectual property rights
Distance
5  m
Language
English
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
  • Oceans
Title

SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer
Date (Revision)
2006-01-01
Code
Irish Sea
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Begin date
2005-01-01
End date
2005-01-01
Supplemental Information

http://www.offshore-sea.org.uk/site/index.php

Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
    OnLine resource
    Protocol Linkage Name
    http://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/sea/home.html

    Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal
    Hierarchy level
    Dataset
    Statement

    The report was compiled by: Petroleum Affairs Division, Dublin; Coastal and Marine Resources Centre, University College Cork; Department of Geology, University College Cork as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme. Over the last 40 years the IRL-SEA6 area has been surveyed with a range of remote sensing and ground-truthing techniques providing information at various scales of resolution. The main driving factors for these investigations were exploration for hydrocarbons in the Kish Bank and the Central Irish Sea basins, as well as cable and pipeline route surveys. The existing data includes the following: seismic data including conventional seismic and high-resolution seismic (e.g. Sparker, Boomer, GeoChirp, etc.); echosounder; side-scan sonar and multibeam coverage over certain areas; video and photographic imagery of selected parts of the seabed, located based on remotely sensed data; and seabed samples collected with various techniques (e.g. Gravity cores, dredge samples etc.). This report is mainly based on the data that was made available for this study by the Petroleum Affairs Division (PAD) of the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Ireland. This data can broadly be subdivided into four groups: Conventional seismic data (2D and 3D) collected during the period 1965-2004; Exploration wells drilled over the period 1977-2004; Route survey data obtained during 1986-2004; Multidisciplinary data collected during short annual research cruises by Peter Croker of the PAD during the period 1995-2002.

    Metadata

    File identifier
    aba64100-c140-4de3-e044-0003ba6f30bd XML
    Metadata language
    English
    Hierarchy level
    Dataset
    Date stamp
    2011-08-30
    Metadata standard name

    MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
    Metadata standard version

    Version 2.3.5
    Metadata author
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    British Geological Survey (BGS)

    Mary Mowat

    offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk

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