System of Industry Metocean Data for the Offshore and Research Communities (SIMORC) metocean data from offshore oil and gas fields.

This dataset comprises metocean (current, wave,wind, meteorology and water level) data collected by oil companies Shell, BP and Total at their offshore oil and gas fields worldwide. It does not included the hindcast modelling simulations which were run on behalf of these oil companies; just the metocean measurements. Additionally, some data on the effect of water motion on platform stability, corrosion (dissolved oxygen concentration), ice thickness and movement and hydrography (vertical profiles of salinity, temperature and density and occasionally sound velocity) are included. The vast majority of the data were measured by instruments, although some human observations of wind speed and wave height and direction are also included. Geographic coverage is worldwide, according to the location of offshore oil and gas fields: NE and NW Atlantic, North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Caspian Sea, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Guinea, South Atlantic, Magellan Straits, Sea of Okhotsk, Indian Ocean, South China Sea, Seram Sea, Malacca Straits, Makassar Strait. The earliest dataset was collected in 1961 and the most recent in 2010. Collection is ongoing. At present, there are over 2550 datsets covering more than 2000 years of observations of winds, waves, currents and sealevels.

Alternate title: British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048SIMORC

Date (Publication): 2017-10-03

Date (Creation): 2011-01-26

Date (Revision): 2011-01-26

Identifier: http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED4276

Owner

BP Exploration & Production - Unknown ( Unknown )

BP - Offshore Systems, EPTG , Chertsey Road , Sunbury on Thames , Middlesex , TW16 7LN , United Kingdom

+44 (0)1932 762000
https://www.bp.com/

Originator

BP Exploration & Production - Unknown ( Unknown )

BP - Offshore Systems, EPTG , Chertsey Road , Sunbury on Thames , Middlesex , TW16 7LN , United Kingdom

+44 (0)1932 762000
https://www.bp.com/

Owner

Shell UK Exploration and Production Limited - Unknown ( Unknown )

1 Altens Farm Road , Nigg , Aberdeen , AB12 3FY , United Kingdom

Originator

Shell UK Exploration and Production Limited - Unknown ( Unknown )

1 Altens Farm Road , Nigg , Aberdeen , AB12 3FY , United Kingdom

Owner

Total SA - Unknown ( Unknown )

DGEP/DSO/TEC/GEO , 9 Place des Vosges - La Défense 5 , Paris La Défense Cedex , 92924 , France

https://www.total.com/

Originator

Total SA - Unknown ( Unknown )

DGEP/DSO/TEC/GEO , 9 Place des Vosges - La Défense 5 , Paris La Défense Cedex , 92924 , France

https://www.total.com/

Custodian

British Oceanographic Data Centre - Director

Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom

https://www.bodc.ac.uk/

Distributor

British Oceanographic Data Centre - Director

Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom

https://www.bodc.ac.uk/

Maintenance and update frequency: asNeeded As needed

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Access constraints: otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints: No limitations apply

Other constraints: Data are only available on the basis of case-by-case negotiation for usage

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Other constraints: Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence

Spatial representation type: Text, table

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Elevation
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Oceans

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Gulf of Mexico

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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North Sea

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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Gulf of Guinea

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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Mediterranean Sea, Western Basin

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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Mediterranean Sea, Eastern Basin

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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Adriatic Sea

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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South Atlantic Ocean

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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Indian Ocean

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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Mozambique Channel

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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Andaman Sea

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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Red Sea

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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Gulf of Aden

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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Persian Gulf

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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Gulf of Oman

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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South China Sea

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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Gulf of Thailand

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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Malacca Strait

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

Geographic identifier

Selat Makasar

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

Geographic identifier

Sea of Okhotsk

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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Northwestern Passages

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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Norwegian Sea

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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Caspian Sea

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

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Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

Geographic identifier

Northwest Atlantic Ocean (40W)

Date (Revision): 2021-10-28

Begin date: 1961

End date: 2021-12-20 After

Unique resource identifier: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Codespace: OGP

Distribution format

OnLine resource: SIMORC website
Access the System of Industry Metocean data for the Offshore and Research Communities (SIMORC) website. This provides an overview of and access to an increasing volume of metocean data sets, collected by the oil and gas industry at various sites on the globe in the past and continuing at present.

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Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: BODC protocols are based on the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model enabling BODC to iterate towards compliance with the on-going evolution and development of community requirements including FAIR (Findable,Accessible,Interoperable,Reusable), TRUST (Transparency, Responsibility, User community, Sustainability, Technology) and CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics). Data managers quality assure submissions and assemble the metadata necessary for curation. Submissions (as received) are placed in a long-term accession and stored in triplicate across multiple sites. Appropriate data are transferred into a standard internal format with source variable names mapped to controlled vocabularies, documentation assembled, and metadata loaded into BODC databases. Access to these data is through direct request, the BODC website and through partner repositories such as SeaDataNet. Access control is attained by assigning a data policy to each set of data and this policy is used to administer access when data are requested. Discovery metadata is aligned with EU INSPIRE (through MEDIN) and SeaDataNet community standards. Data are converted to open community formats including Ocean Data View ASCII and SeaDataNet NetCDF, with data described using terms from the NERC vocabulary server. BODC submission agreements are documented on the BODC website and customer service is assured with a dedicated requests team that serve data following local regulations including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018 and Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) 2004.

Pass: Yes

Statement: This dataset was created by the organisations with the "originator" role in this metadata record following their in-house data processing and quality control procedures. The data were then provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for ingestion into one of the schemas of the National Oceanographic Database (NODB). During ingestion BODC undertake quality control, documentation and metadata enhancement procedures appropriate to the type of data. For an overview please see http://www.bodc.ac.uk/about/information_technology/data_processing_steps/. BODC supply full information about data collection, data processing and data quality with all data requests to enable users to assess data suitability themselves.

Instrument(s) used to collect data: anemometers; wave recorders; sea level recorders; current profilers; sound velocity sensors; surface current radars; salinity sensor; observers; CTD; water body temperature sensor; current meters; water temperature sensor; thermistor chains; precipitation samplers; snow and ice samplers; meteorological packages.

File identifier: ebecc19343d75cefb75cf4efcfaece89 XML

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Date stamp: 2021-12-20T06:31:16

Metadata standard name: MEDIN

Metadata standard version: 3.1.1

Point of contact

British Oceanographic Data Centre - Polly Hadžiabdić ( Head of the BODC Requests Team )

Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom

https://www.bodc.ac.uk/

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