| 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 |
| 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 |
| Flagging environmentally sensitive areas prior to seismic surveys | OTM | Seismic planning | Identify environmentally sensitive areas | on-shore | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forecasting sand dune migration | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Facility siting, pipeline routing and roads. | on-shore | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 potential hydrocarbon seepage | OTM | Surface geology mapping | Lithological discrimination | on-shore | 4 | 3 | 1 | 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 |
| Monitoring ground movement along pipelines | OTM | Subsidence monitoring | Infrastructure monitoring | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| Monitoring natural fault movement | OTM | Subsidence monitoring | land motion | on-shore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Urban encroachment on O&G assets | OTM | Logistics planning and operations | Monitoring of assets | on-shore | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
