Challenge | Source | Theme | Topic | Generic | Pre-license | Exploration | Development | Production | Decommission |
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Air quality (emissions) monitoring | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Continuous monitoring of changes throughout the lifecycle | on-shore | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Anticipating areas of high seismic impedance | OTM | Seismic planning | Areas of poor coupling | on-shore | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Assessing the social impact of construction work | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Continuous monitoring of changes throughout the lifecycle | on-shore | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Avoiding aerial mapping restrictions | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Baseline mapping of terrain and infrastructure | on-shore | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Change detection of coastline migration | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Baseline historic mapping of environment and ecosystems | on-shore | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Change detection for competitive intelligence | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Monitoring of assets | on-shore | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Coastal morphology | CLS | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Coastal resource mapping of mangroves, coral-reefs, wetlands and sandbanks | C-CORE | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Coastal sediment dynamics, estuarine fronts and land-ocean interactions | C-CORE | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Coastal upwelling | C-CORE | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Commercial and recreational fisheries | C-CORE | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Commercial shipping | C-CORE | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Convective downbursts | C-CORE | Metocean | | off-shore | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Creating an ecosystem inventory prior to exploration | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Continuous monitoring of changes throughout the lifecycle | on-shore | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Creating basemaps in politically sensitive regions | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Baseline mapping of terrain and infrastructure | on-shore | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Current at depth observations | C-CORE | Metocean | | off-shore | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
Detecting ecosystem damages | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Continuous monitoring of changes throughout the lifecycle | on-shore | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
Detecting hydrocarbon leaks | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Continuous monitoring of changes throughout the lifecycle | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Detection and monitoring of pollutant discharges | C-CORE | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Determine historical ground movement for infrastructure planning | OTM | Subsidence monitoring | Infrastructure monitoring | on-shore | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Determine historical ground movement for pipeline routing | OTM | Subsidence monitoring | Infrastructure monitoring | on-shore | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Distribution and abundance of marine animals | C-CORE | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Distribution and abundance of sea birds | C-CORE | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
Drilling survey preparation: Environmental conditions | CLS | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Drilling survey preparation: Metocean conditions hindcast and forecast | CLS | Metocean | | off-shore | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Early identification of potential hydrocarbon basins | OTM | Surface geology mapping | Mapping geological features | on-shore | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Ecosystem valuation of potential sites | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Baseline historic mapping of environment and ecosystems | on-shore | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Efficiency of vessels and helicopters operations | CLS | Metocean | | off-shore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
Enabling survey to understand structural properties of the sub-surface for infrastructure planning | OTM | Surface geology mapping | Engineering geological evaluation | on-shore | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Environmental conditions | CLS | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Environmental monitoring | CLS | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Estimating ground bearing capacity | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Estimating ground bearing capacity | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Facility siting, pipeline routing and roads | on-shore | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Estimation of the climate change impact | CLS | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Evaluation of the efficiency of the structure | CLS | Metocean | | off-shore | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Firemapping | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Support to seismic surveying crews for planning surveys and H&S | on-shore | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Fish and fish habitat | C-CORE | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Flagging environmentally sensitive areas prior to seismic surveys | OTM | Seismic planning | Identify environmentally sensitive areas | on-shore | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Floodplain mapping | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Natural hazard risk analysis | on-shore | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Forecasting landslide locations | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Facility siting, pipeline routing and roads | on-shore | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Forecasting river migration patterns | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Facility siting, pipeline routing and roads | on-shore | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Forecasting sand dune migration | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Facility siting, pipeline routing and roads. | on-shore | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
Funnel-clouds and waterspouts | C-CORE | Metocean | | off-shore | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Geohazard exposure analysis | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Natural hazard risk analysis | on-shore | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Geological and terrain base maps for development of environmental baseline | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Baseline historic mapping of environment and ecosystems | on-shore | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Global requirements on EO products | CLS | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Hail | C-CORE | Metocean | | off-shore | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Historic metocean data for high level risk assessment | CLS | Metocean | Risk assessment | off-shore | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Historic records of currents at depth | C-CORE | Metocean | | off-shore | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
Historical records for surface currents | C-CORE | Metocean | | off-shore | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
Historic records for waves | C-CORE | Metocean | | off-shore | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
Historic records for winds | C-CORE | Metocean | | off-shore | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Historic tropical storm/tropical cyclone probability and tracks | C-CORE | Metocean | | off-shore | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
Hurricane tracks | CLS | Metocean | | off-shore | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ice accretion | C-CORE | Metocean | | off-shore | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
Identification of archaeological or burial sites | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Facility siting, pipeline routing and roads. | on-shore | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Identification of fault lines | OTM | Surface geology mapping | Structural interpretation | on-shore | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Identification of road or track for logistics planning | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Baseline mapping of terrain and infrastructure | on-shore | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
Identification of seasonal environment changes e.g. migration patterns | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Continuous monitoring of changes throughout the lifecycle | on-shore | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Identification of seasonal obstructions to logistics activities | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Facility siting, pipeline routing and roads. | on-shore | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Identify areas with soft sediments to avoid strong attenuation | Hatfield | Seismic planning | Areas of poor coupling | on-shore | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Identify communication between producing zones | OTM | Subsidence monitoring | Reservoir management | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Identify the causes of geological movement | OTM | Surface geology mapping | Structural interpretation | on-shore | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Identifying conflicting sources of seismic signals | OTM | Seismic planning | Areas of poor coupling | on-shore | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Identifying effect of fault line reactivation | OTM | Subsidence monitoring | Land motion | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Identifying existing O&G infrastructure for facility site selection | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Facility siting, pipeline routing and roads. | on-shore | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Identifying ground conditions susceptible to poor coupling | OTM | Seismic planning | Areas of poor coupling | on-shore | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Identifying munitions debris (UOX) | OTM | Seismic planning | Identification of adverse terrain for trafficability | on-shore | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
Identifying near surface infrastructure | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Baseline mapping of terrain and infrastructure | on-shore | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Identifying potential hydrocarbon seepage | OTM | Surface geology mapping | Lithological discrimination | on-shore | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Identifying seasonal terrain changes eg for access | OTM | Surface geology mapping | Terrain evaluation and geo-morphology characterisation | on-shore | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Identifying soft ground for seismic vehicles | OTM | Seismic planning | Identification of adverse terrain for trafficability | on-shore | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Identifying sources of building resources | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Facility siting, pipeline routing and roads. | on-shore | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Identifying steep terrain for seismic vehicles | OTM | Seismic planning | Identification of adverse terrain for trafficability | on-shore | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Identifying unregulated overhead power lines | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Support to seismic surveying crews for planning surveys and H&S | on-shore | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Identifying variations in trafficability for seismic vehicles | OTM | Seismic planning | Identification of adverse terrain for trafficability | on-shore | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Information on presence and abundance of deep water fauna | C-CORE | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Information on the intertidal and shallow marine environment | C-CORE | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Inputs for numerical model | CLS | Metocean | | off-shore | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Land use mapping to detect the social impact of O&G developments | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Continuous monitoring of changes throughout the lifecycle | on-shore | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Lightning | C-CORE | Metocean | | off-shore | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Locating repeater stations for communications infrastructure | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Support to seismic surveying crews for planning surveys and H&S | on-shore | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
Logistics planning for emergency events | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Support to seismic surveying crews for planning surveys and H&S | on-shore | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Mapping of environmental degradation (change) | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Continuous monitoring of changes throughout the lifecycle | on-shore | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Metocean forecast to avoid downtime | CLS | Metocean | | off-shore | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Metocean monitoring | CLS | Metocean | | off | Mapping of environmental degradation (change) | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Continuous monitoring of changes throughout the lifecycle | on-shore | 0 | 20 | 404 | 0 | 45 |
Model validation | CLS | Metocean | | off-shore | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Monitoring flash floods | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Natural hazard risk analysis | on-shore | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Monitoring ground movement along pipelines | OTM | Subsidence monitoring | Infrastructure monitoring | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
Monitoring hydrocarbon leaks | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Continuous monitoring of changes throughout the lifecycle | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
Monitoring of chlorophyl-a productivity and harmful algal blooms (HAB) | C-CORE | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Monitoring of landfall site recovery and coastal vegetation | C-CORE | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Monitoring of waste management practices | C-CORE | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Monitoring water discharge/drill cuttings | CLS | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Monitoring of water discharge/drill cuttingsquality / turbidity during operations | CLS | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 0 |
Monitoring natural fault movement | OTM | Subsidence monitoring | land Land motion | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Monitoring revegetation | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Continuous monitoring of changes throughout the lifecycle | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Natural and other existing oil seeps | C-CORE | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Obtaining detailed terrain mapping for DEM correction | OTM | Surface geology mapping | Terrain evaluation and geo-morphology characterisation | on-shore | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
Planning around protected sites | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Facility siting, pipeline routing and roads | on-shore | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Planning secondary surveys | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Support to surveying crews for planning surveys and H&S | on-shore | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Pollution monitoring | CLS | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
Pre-licensing site selection | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Baseline historic mapping of environment and ecosystemsenvironment and ecosystems | on-shore | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Recommendation for the design of infrastructure | CLS | Metocean | | offon-shore | 40 | 00 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Reconnaissance survey for EIA | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Baseline historic mapping of environment and ecosystems | on-shore | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Regulatory verification relating to injection of fracking fluids | OTM | Subsidence monitoring | reservoir management | on-shore | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Remote supervision of operations | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Monitoring of assets | on-shore | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Resettlement assessment | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Facility siting, pipeline routing and roads | on-shore | 4 | 0 | 2 | and roads | on-shore | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Safety of marine operations | CLS | Metocean | | off-shore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
SAR imagery to detect ships and icebergs | CLS | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 |
Scientific independence in environmental monitoring of pollution | C-CORE | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Sea level | C-CORE | Metocean | | off-shore | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
Sea surface temperatures | C-CORE | Metocean | | off-shore | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Security and safety | C-CORE | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Security of pipelines | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Monitoring of assets | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
Seismic survey current velocities | CLS | Metocean | | off-shore | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Seismic survey sound propagation properties | CLS | Metocean | | off-shore | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Selection of development sites | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Facility siting, pipeline routing and roads. | on-shore | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Selection of the drilling rig | CLS | Metocean | | off-shore | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Shipwrecks and other archaeological value areas | C-CORE | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Site monitoring | CLS | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Squalls | C-CORE | Metocean | | off-shore | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
Submarine landslides and seabed stability | C-CORE | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Subsidence from reservoir draw-down | OTM | Subsidence monitoring | reservoir management | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Surface current observations | C-CORE | Metocean | | off-shore | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
Surface infrastructure movement relative to sub-surface | OTM | Subsidence monitoring | infrastructure Infrastructure monitoring | on-shore | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
Technical verification relating to injection of fracking fluids | OTM | Subsidence monitoring | reservoir Reservoir management | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Tracking fluid migration in the sub-surface | OTM | Subsidence monitoring | reservoir Reservoir management | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Tracking groundwater tables | OTM | Subsidence monitoring | Land motion relating to fault lines or other sources | on-shore | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Tracking volume of oil stored | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Monitoring of assets | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Tropical storm/tropical cyclone observations | C-CORE | Metocean | | off-shore | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
Understanding activity beneath the tree canopy | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Baseline mapping of terrain and infrastructure | on-shore | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Understanding outcrop mineralology | OTM | Surface geology mapping | Lithological discrimination | on-shore | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Understanding the near-surface for anticipating seismic signal absorption properties | OTM | Surface geology mapping | Lithological discrimination | on-shore | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Understanding the near-surface for explosive charge placement | OTM | Seismic planning | Areas of poor coupling | on-shore | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Understanding security situations | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Facility siting, pipeline routing and roads. | on-shore | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Urban encroachment on O&G assets | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Monitoring of assets | on-shore | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Validating co-ordinates of old wells | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Baseline mapping of terrain and infrastructure | on-shore | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Vegetation encroachment on O&G assets | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Monitoring of assets | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Visibility | C-CORE | Metocean | | off-shore | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
Visibility during operations | CLS | Environmental monitoring | | off-shore | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Wave observations | C-CORE | Metocean | | off-shore | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
Water quality monitoring | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Continuous monitoring of changes throughout the lifecycle | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Wind observations | C-CORE | Metocean | | off-shore | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 |