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Aberdeen Shipping Density Grid - February 2011 to January 2012 (Number of intersecting vessels) |
The results of a shipping study of the four major Scottish ports: Forth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Clyde displaying intersecting vessels between 01/02/2011 and 31/01/2012.
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Saltire Prize Regional Locational Guidance Areas (Tidal) |
On 16 March 2010, The Crown Estate announced successful bidders for lease agreements for wave and tidal leases with a potential capacity of up to 1,200 MW in the Pentland Firth and Orkney waters. This followed a competitive leasing round for demonstration and commercial scale project sites which saw considerable interest from industry. The Pentland Firth and Orkney waters is the first area to be made available for commercial-scale development of wave and tidal energy in Scotland and indeed the whole of the UK. The projects are believed to represent the largest planned development of wave and tidal energy worldwide.
Based on this information Marine Scotland established areas of interest for tidal power. This layer shows areas of interest identified by Marine Scotland for tidal power in support of the Scottish Government Saltire Prize.
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Forth Shipping Density Grid - February 2011 to January 2012 (Number of intersecting vessels) |
The results of a shipping study of the four major scottish ports: Forth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Clyde displaying intersecting vessels between 01/02/2011 and 31/01/2012.
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Oil and Gas - Coal Mining Licence Areas (Coal Authority WMS) |
It is the statutory responsibility of The Coal Authority to licence and monitor the extraction of coal by private operators. These Licence areas relate to any granted licence for the working of coal since the creation of The Coal Authority in October 1994. This layer shows licenced areas of underground and open cast coal sites and underground coal gasification (UGC). UGC is an industrial process, which converts coal into product gas.
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Oil and Gas - Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) areas (BEIS) |
The UK continental shelf is subdivided into eight areas for the purposes of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA).
SEA is the process of appraisal through which environmental protection and sustainable development may be considered, and factored into national and local decisions regarding Government (and other) plans and programmes – such as oil and gas licensing rounds and other offshore energy developments, including renewables and gas and carbon dioxide storage.
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AIS Shipping Traffic - First week of March 2010 (Number of intersecting vessels) |
Map shows number of vessels using class A AIS (vessels >300t, AIS working and not switched off, position info is accurate) and excludes vessels <300t, fishing vessels, recreational craft, vessels carrying class B AIS. AIS (Automatic Identification System) is a carriage requirement for SOLAS vesels and is an integral part of the EU Vessel Traffic Monitoring and Information Directive (2002/59/EC).
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Oil and Gas - North Sea Interactive (NSI) biological and chemical environmental survey availability for oil and gas licence blocks |
This layer is a simplified representation of the data available through the North Sea Interactive (NSI) project carried out by Heriot Watt University, BGS and National Oceanography Centre. It combines information from the NSI product and the oil and gas licensed areas layers to highlight what type of sampling has been conducted in each area as part of the offshore environmental surveys carried out by oil and gas operators.
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AIS Shipping Traffic - First week of June 2010 (Number of intersecting vessels) |
Map shows number of vessels using class A AIS (vessels >300t, AIS working and not switched off, position info is accurate) and excludes vessels <300t, fishing vessels, recreational craft, vessels carrying class B AIS. AIS (Automatic Identification System) is a carriage requirement for SOLAS vesels and is an integral part of the EU Vessel Traffic Monitoring and Information Directive (2002/59/EC).
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Oil and Gas - Coastal Installations |
This dataset contains information on coastal facilities utilised by the hydrocarbons industry. The locations of refineries, terminals (pipelines) and decommissioning yards as well as their names are recorded.
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AIS Shipping Traffic - First week of September 2010 (Number of intersecting vessels) |
Map shows number of vessels using class A AIS (vessels >300t, AIS working and not switched off, position info is accurate) and excludes vessels <300t, fishing vessels, recreational craft, vessels carrying class B AIS. AIS (Automatic Identification System) is a carriage requirement for SOLAS vesels and is an integral part of the EU Vessel Traffic Monitoring and Information Directive (2002/59/EC).
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