Regulatory Information & Samples Lead

Our client, an Oil and Gas Operator is seeking an experienced Information & Samples Coordinator. This is a 2 year PAYE contract role based at Barrow-in-Furness.

The Information & Samples Coordinator (ISC) is the company focal point to the NSTA for regulatory compliance relating to subsurface, wells, decommissioning, production, and infrastructure data and physical samples and records. The role ensures that all information and samples obligations under the Energy Act 2016, and subsequent regulations and guidelines, are delivered accurately, on time, and in accordance with corporate and regulatory standards.

The role is accountable for regulatory-compliant data and samples management across the full asset lifecycle, with particular focus on end-of-life assets and decommissioning phases. Ensuring high-quality submissions to NSTA systems, successful legacy data remediation, and robust governance of subsurface and other information and physical/digital archives.

Accountable for regular formal engagement with NSTA Data Compliance team:

• Attend annual ISC review at NSTA premises
• Review and discuss annual Teir-Zero data compliance scoring
• Monitor ISC inbox daily
• Regular meetings and communications around NDR, ISP’s, missing data, calls for legacy data

Lead the delivery of timely and accurate NSTA statutory submissions, including:

• Infrastructure Bi-Annual GIS submissions
• Stewardship Survey (Annual)
• WIOS (Well Information & Operations System) data corrections
• WUNS / WONS data creation and reconciliation
• Manage and respond to Missing Data Requests (Section 34 Notices) within required 30-day deadlines (including samples)
• Accountable for agreed legacy and decommissioning data submission plans to be delivered adequately and on time, where agreement reached with NSTA on scope and timeline
• Lead coordination and preparation for future NSTA Calls for Data
• Full responsibility for data compliance with Information & Samples (I&S) across all reporting activities

Accountable for submission of digital data to the National Data Repository (NDR), including:

• Seismic and Site surveys (including reprocessing events)
• Wellbore and legacy datasets

Lead the interface between ISC and IS team to manage digital data storage and disposal, whilst safeguarding Energy Act compliance

Accountable for samples and physical archives, ensuring:

• Statutory reporting compliance to the British Geological Society (BGS) within statutory guidelines
• Appropriate retention, transfer, and disposal. Lead review of archives required to ensure compliance with decommissioning phases and NSTA approval of well ownership in perpetuity
• Lead the interface between ISC and IM teams to capture time and cost synergies for storage solutions and disposal
• Manage suitable disposal of fluids in storage

Produce, maintain, and track Information & Samples Plans (ISP):

• For Decommissioning and Relinquishment Licence events
• Ensure delivery of high-quality GIS/mapping included
• Responsible for ISP regular communication with NSTA data compliance team
• Lead review into ISP execution and statutory obligations relating to previous ISP’s
• Lead interface of ISP delivery with asset lifecycle events and UKCS Licensing liaising with Decommissioning team and Legal and Commercial.
• Ensure ISP commitments are met and are auditable

Manage regulatory compliance of application projects, and data therein, to ensure appropriate data retention schedule and end-of-life disposal.

Lead integration of corporate technical data stores to cloud solutions, for asset, decommissioning and legacy data

Support managed service subsurface and wells teams with:

• Data availability and accessibility
• Technical computing environments and data integration
• Act as a bridge between technical disciplines and data governance requirements

Responsible for internal understanding of I&S across the wells, decommissioning, legal, and IS/IM teams

• Raise awareness and understanding of End-of-Life Data Management across organisation
• Act as the central point of contact for information and samples coordination
• Act as point for contact for UKCS Licensing activities and events
• Act as main focal point for UK NDR and PEARS system admin, plus any other systems on the UK Energy Portal as necessary.
• Act as main user and focal point for GIS and mapping…