Guidance The NSTA produces a range of guidance documents, to support and assist industry in fulfilling its responsibilities and obligations, to set clear expectations on standards and behaviour, and to help share best practice. View more
Licensing rounds We hold offshore and onshore petroleum licensing rounds, inviting applications from companies and making awards to those bids that promise to ensure economic recovery of the UK’s oil and gas resources, whilst supporting the drive to net zero carbon by 2050. View more
Financial Guidance Publications The Oil and Gas Authority’s (the ‘OGA’) powers, and this guidance, apply to: (a) the upstream UK offshore petroleum industry; and View more
General guidance Companies who want to participate in the exploitation of the UK’s oil and gas resources need (among other things) a Production Licence from the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA). The OGA operates a competitive system for awarding Production Licences. Download
Retention of Information and Samples Guidance Publication Publications Regulations governing the retention of petroleum-related information and samples laid in parliament by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) came into force on 14 May 2018. View more
Financial Guidance August 2018 This guidance sets out when the Authority will consider the financial capability of a legal or natural person (“person”) and the factors that the Authority will usually take into consideration when doing so Download
