1 Data information

The geodatabase on offshore hydrocarbon licences in the EU was created in 2015 by Cogea for the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet). It is the result of the aggregation and harmonization of datasets provided by several EU and non-EU sources. It is updated every year, and is available for viewing and download on EMODnet - Human Activities web portal (www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu). The database contains polygons representing active offshore hydrocarbon licences in the following countries: Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and UK. Where available each polygon has the following attributes: country, code, name, type (exploration, exploitation), licensing round, area (square km), area info (it indicates if the attribute value is original from the source or has been calculated) starting year, ending year, operator.

1.1 Metadata

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2 Geographical extent

2.1 Coordinates

## [1] "West-Longitude: -15.6"
## [1] "South-Latitude: 48.8"
## [1] "East-Longitude: -6.4"
## [1] "North-Latitude: 53.7"

2.2 Defined area

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3 Offshore hydrocarbon licences

3.1 Access data

The Web Feature Service (WFS) of the EMODnet Human activities portal allows collecting the data:
https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs?service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.1.0

Available labels:

##  [1] "FID"        "country"    "code"       "name"       "type"      
##  [6] "round"      "area_sqkm"  "operator"   "year_start" "year_end"  
## [11] "area_info"  "the_geom"


Download data for the defined geographical extent:

Excel file Geographic information
csv geojson

3.2 Table

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3.3 Map

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3.5 Interactive map

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