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Metadata: 2026, Offshore Colocation Forum, Project Anemone - Colocation of Offshore Wind, CO2 Storage & Oil and Gas
Abstract:
To better understand what is needed for the offshore wind, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and oil and gas sectors to operate together in an increasingly busy marine environment, the Offshore Wind and CCS Colocation Forum and Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) came together to sponsor Project Anemone. The final report by the project delivery partners – OEUK, Decarb Scotland (formerly NECCUS) and ORE Catapult – has now been published, setting out perspectives from these three sectors on actions that could be taken to help effectively plan for and manage overlaps between them. Project Anemone brought together developers, regulators, seabed managers and industry organisations from across the three sectors in a series of interviews and focused workshops. Discussions focused on how decisions across project lifecycles are taken in practice, rather than on technical design or new regulation, emphasising that many colocation challenges stem from timing, coordination and limited early visibility of potential overlaps.
Data holder:
The Crown Estate
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 19545 |
| Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | 2026, Offshore Colocation Forum, Project Anemone - Colocation of Offshore Wind, CO2 Storage & Oil and Gas |
| File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | d6dbd610-0d57-4cda-8b82-3c97cadc0696 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | TCE-4566 |
| Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | series |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2025-06-09 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2026-05-07 |
| Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | notPlanned |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | To better understand what is needed for the offshore wind, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and oil and gas sectors to operate together in an increasingly busy marine environment, the Offshore Wind and CCS Colocation Forum and Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) came together to sponsor Project Anemone. The final report by the project delivery partners – OEUK, Decarb Scotland (formerly NECCUS) and ORE Catapult – has now been published, setting out perspectives from these three sectors on actions that could be taken to help effectively plan for and manage overlaps between them. Project Anemone brought together developers, regulators, seabed managers and industry organisations from across the three sectors in a series of interviews and focused workshops. Discussions focused on how decisions across project lifecycles are taken in practice, rather than on technical design or new regulation, emphasising that many colocation challenges stem from timing, coordination and limited early visibility of potential overlaps. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | Project Anemone was delivered through two stages of engagement. The first established a shared understanding of the regulatory landscape and the operational issues associated with colocation. The second moved into detailed, operator/developer-led discussion on how colocation can be better managed across OSW, CS and O&G. Together, the two stages produced the evidence base from which the solutions, good practice developments and complementary work presented in this report were drawn. Regulator and Stakeholder Engagement: The first stage engaged regulators, public bodies, seabed managers and trade organisations through structured interviews, alongside desk-based research into the regulatory and consenting regimes for each sector. This work produced a detailed picture of the development pathways for OSW, CS and O&G, including the distinct roles, timelines and interactions of the bodies involved at each stage. Developer and Operator Engagement: The second stage built on this evidence base through pre-workshop surveys, three sector-specific workshops and a combined cross-sector workshop with developers and operators from all three industries. The surveys were used to shape the agendas around the issues developers considered most important. The workshops then explored operational, regulatory, environmental, commercial and technical requirements in more detail, with a particular focus on regulatory clarity, the alignment of licensing and leasing processes, technical and operational interfaces, early engagement, and data sharing and agreement structures. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Administrative units |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 64 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 4 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 47 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -16 |
| Responsible organisations | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | The Crown Estate | |
| Position name | Marine Data and Evidence Advisor | |
| mde@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | The Crown Estate | |
| Individual name | Adrian Topham | |
| adrian.topham@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | The Crown Estate | |
| Individual name | Adrian Topham | |
| adrian/topham@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/TCE-4566/summary |
| Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20.1 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 20.2 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | There will be no limitations when published on the Marine Data Exchange | |
| 21.1 Conditions for Access and Use - Use constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 21.2 Conditions for Access and Use - Other constraints | This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | Data Must be used in accordance to the Marine Data Exchange's Terms of Use: https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/content/info/terms-of-use |
| Version info | ||
| Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2026-05-20 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2026-05-19 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-09-27 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2026-05-20 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 3.1.2 |