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 |
Creating an ecosystem inventory prior to exploration | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Continuous monitoring of changes throughout the lifecycle | on-shore | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Firemapping | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Support to seismic crews for planning surveys and H&S | on-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 |
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 |
Historic metocean data for high level risk assessment | CLS | Metocean | Risk assessment | off-shore | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Historical records for surface currents | C-CORE | Metocean | off-shore | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | |
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 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 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 |
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 |
Locating repeater stations for communications infrastructure | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Support to seismic 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 crews for planning surveys and H&S | on-shore | 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 |
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 natural fault movement | OTM | Subsidence monitoring | 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 |
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 secondary surveys | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Support to surveying crews for planning surveys and H&S | on-shore | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Pre-licensing site selection | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Baseline historic mapping of environment and ecosystems | on-shore | 4 | 0 | 0 | 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 |
Resettlement assessment | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Facility siting, pipeline routing and roads | on-shore | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Security of pipelines | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Monitoring of assets | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
Selection of development sites | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Facility siting, pipeline routing and roads. | on-shore | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Subsidence from reservoir draw-down | OTM | Subsidence monitoring | reservoir management | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Surface infrastructure movement relative to sub-surface | OTM | Subsidence monitoring | infrastructure monitoring | on-shore | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
Technical verification relating to injection of fracking fluids | OTM | Subsidence monitoring | reservoir management | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Tracking fluid migration in the sub-surface | OTM | Subsidence monitoring | 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 |
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 |
Vegetation encroachment on O&G assets | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Monitoring of assets | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Water quality monitoring | OTM | Environmental monitoring | Continuous monitoring of changes throughout the lifecycle | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |