Oil and gas: licence data
Look up original licences and licence reports for UK onshore, offshore and gas storage by block, company or licence number.
Getting a licence
You can go to the UK Oil Portal to apply online for onshore and offshore petroleum licences - and for changes to licences eg assignments and relinquishments (login required).
All the offshore licences have been migrated to the new portal licensing system
Licence reports
- Offshore licences by licence number
- Onshore licences by licence number
- Offshore licences by block
- Onshore licences by block
- Licences by company and block
- Licensee company information
- Company group lookup
- Offshore sub-area operators
- Licensing Offshore/Onshore Export Reports
Scanned licence documents
You can search for recent offshore, onshore or gas storage licences and licence reports by block or part block using our look-up menu (no login required).
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Licence Relinquishments
- Relinquishment/surrender reports: Seaward Production Licences
- Licence relinquishments 2003 to present
Additional licensing data
Updates to this page
Published 22 January 2013Last updated 18 January 2016 + show all updates
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Updated Recent and current Exploration Licences document
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Oil and Gas: Updated document for Recent and current extant exploration licences.
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Oil and Gas: Update of extant licences pdf
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Oil and Gas: Update of current extant licences pdf
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Oil and gas: Exploration Licences - (updated)
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Oil and gas: Recent and current extant exploration licences - (updated)
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Oil and gas: Recent and current extant exploration licences - (updated)
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Oil and gas: Recent and current extant exploration licences - (updated)
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Oil and Gas: recent and current extant exploration licences document updated
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Oil and Gas: licensing offshore/onshore export reports link added
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Oil and gas: 2013 Licence relinquishments - (updated)
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2013 Relinquishments updated
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2013 relinquishments - updated
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2013 Oil and gas licence relinquishments - updated
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2013 relinquishments - updated
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2013 Relinquishments updated
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2013 Relinquishments updated
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