Early warning of clashing offshore operations on the UK continental shelf
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Site = site survey (2D high-res, profilers). Notice = light survey with no end date (echo sounder, sonar). VSP = borehole seismic from a rig. Pipeline = pipeline or subsea works. Hover over a name for more.
When two offshore operations need the same patch of sea at the same time, one of them has to wait or work around the other. That usually means a costly vessel or rig standing by, a survey line given up, or a plan rearranged at short notice. Finding out weeks ahead turns that into a phone call between two companies.
Every survey, rig move, well intervention and pipeline job on the UK shelf needs a consent from the regulator (OPRED), and the list is public. SIMOPS Radar reads that list every morning, finds activities in the same or a neighbouring block whose consent windows overlap, and ranks them by how likely they are to matter.
Coming up lists clashes that haven't finished yet, soonest first. Look back shows past years, which is how the rules get checked: if you know what happened, a quick thumbs up or down helps.
Pick a company to see only clashes involving its work, and use Watching to narrow that to, say, its seismic surveys or rigs. Quiet shows the few worth a call. Rules lets you set what counts, and each clash shows why it was rated High, Medium or Low.
We designed SIMOPS Radar and built it with an AI assistant (Claude) doing much of the coding, data cleaning and testing. The alerts themselves don't come from AI: they come from fixed rules you can see and change under Rules, and every score can be traced back to the public consent data.
Each job is one application (for example WIA for a well intervention, DRA for drilling, SA for a standalone survey) with several consents under it. The ones that matter here:
Hover over a reference on an alert to see what it is. Rejected versions are ignored (the previous version stands), and consents that were surrendered or revoked are left out. Consents with no decision yet are marked.
Limits: locations are licence blocks, not exact positions. Dates are consent windows, usually wider than the actual work. Survey notices have no end date, so a length is assumed (30 days unless you change it).
Sources: PETS user guidance, OPRED survey notification note (2024).
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