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Project Goal
The NSTA regulates and influences the oil and gas, offshore hydrogen and carbon storage industries in the UK’s continental shelf. It works with government, industry and other regulators to accelerate the move to net zero while meeting the UK’s energy demand and security and reducing emissions. Leveraging the geospatial element of the vital information, held and managed by the NSTA’s ArcGIS infrastructure, ensures informed decisions are made about the future of the industry.Business Problem Solved
The NSTA has a vast range of users, internal and external, that have many different disciplinary backgrounds sitting across the full spectrum of digital knowledge and capability. We need to share hundreds of datasets, documents and mapping applications with this audience in a way that can be easily discoverable, accessible, understandable and reusable. This will help drive the industry to achieve our goals of energy security and net zero.
Technology Implemented
The NSTA employs a range of Esri products, focusing on ArcGIS Hub for sharing and collaborating with government, industry and academia. In addition, internally we use a number of ESRI tools to curate our authoritative datasets including ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Portal, ArcPro, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Enterprise Database.
Development Team Biography
John Seabourn is Chief Digital & Information Officer with the remit to digitally transform the organisation to influence and regulate the oil, gas and carbon storage industries in the UK.
Tanya Knowles manages a multidisciplinary team including a data warehouse project, GIS, BI and web development. Her background is in GIS and her work has been to build, and now oversee, the evolution of the Open Data Portal, making data available in a way that can be consumed by a wide audience.
Bee Smith is the Senior Geospatial Manager managing a repository of GIS services and leading a team of Geospatial Specialists who use the latest technology to maximise the value of that data to support the North Sea’s transition to net zero.
Zahir Ibrahim is the Senior Business Intelligence Manager. He leads a team of developers producing data and insights. He has experience in the geospatial sector having previously led the GIS team and worked across many other UK Government departments.