Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many times the Oil and Gas Authority has carried out scientific analysis of data from UK oil and gas operations in each of the last five years; and from which sites that data was taken.

While not primarily a scientific body, the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) frequently undertakes some level of scientific analysis, drawing on external data as well as internal data, and external and internal expertise. Recent examples include:

• Geophysical seismic data release packages (2015 & 2016)
• 21^st Century Roadmap projects (ongoing)
• British Geological Survey shale reports (2014)
• East Midlands coal mining seismicity (2017)
• The separation of the Bowland-Hodder shale unit from coal mining activity in the East Midlands (2018)
• Offshore geochemical database (planned summer 2019)
• Reservoir engineering analyses of production data and well test data (ongoing)
• Laboratory analyses of oil and gas fluid properties (ongoing),