Flare Solutions

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Appointing an Information and Samples Coordinator is a legal requirement for every UK petroleum
and carbon storage licensee. We provide expert advice and support, so you don’t have to carry it alone.

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legal requirement

This is a legal obligation, not a matter of best practice.

Under UK petroleum legislation (Energy Act 2016) and carbon storage legislation (Energy Act 2023), together with the associated regulations, all UK licensees are legally required to appoint a named Information and Samples Coordinator (ISC) and notify the NSTA of that appointment.

The ISC acts as the accountable point of contact for compliance with information and samples requirements. Failure to meet these statutory obligations is sanctionable and may result in regulatory enforcement action, including financial penalties and, in serious or persistent cases, licence sanctions.

The Challenge

Big responsibility; dwindling resources

ISCs are responsible for ensuring compliance through retention and reporting of all licence data. That includes every well, seismic survey, site survey, study, model and more — both current and historic.

On top of this they must act as point of contact for NSTA and coordinate all data requests, be they from regulatory or other stakeholders, and produce Information and Samples Plans at specific licence events such as relinquishments and asset transfer.

Keeping on top of it all is a real challenge — especially if it’s not your main role.

Those of us working today have inherited over 60 years’ worth of legacy data, which is now held to high regulatory standards — but much of which is locked away in offsite storage or distributed across digital systems cobbled together through years of acquisitions and mergers.

Licensees active in the UK today are facing:

  • Higher costs challenging headcount
  • Loss of talent and expertise to retirement
  • Recruitment challenges
  • Stricter regulatory environment

MyISC is a response to these challenges — helping licensees maintain licence data compliance through a flexible cost model all while providing the expert advice and services that all licensees deserve.

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What We Do

Scalable ISC support

MyISC gives you access to Flare’s team of information management specialists as your outsourced ISC function, able to cover the full scope of your NSTA obligations or support your existing team using best-in-class tooling and proven processes.

Here is a sample of what we can do. Exactly what you choose is up to you!

  1. NSTA liaison and communications management
    We act as your named point of contact or delegate with the NSTA, managing all ISC regulatory correspondence, meetings, data requests, escalations, and closeouts on your behalf.
  2. Routine and legacy NDR reporting
    Current and/or historic reporting obligations handled in full, including C-tag assignment, data indexing, and submission to the NDR using MiNDR, our purpose-built compliance platform.
  3. Information and Samples Plans
    We prepare ISPs for any licence event including acquisitions, relinquishments, and licence transfers, ensuring your plan meets agreement with the NSTA as required. We can also support the actions therein.
  4. Compliance advice and project management
    Expert guidance on your specific obligations, strategies for addressing backlogs or gaps, and project management of complex legacy data programmes.
  5. North Sea exit support
    For organisations seeking a complete exit from the UK Continental Shelf, we manage the full data closeout process, ensuring outstanding obligations are resolved cleanly.
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FleXible Subscription

Your basic needs covered, plus additional services as you need them

We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all. MyISC is a subscription scaled to your portfolio and supplemented by additional services charged only as you need them.

Subscription

Core ISC cover

Covers your baseline ISC activities — liberating you to do your main job.

  • Appointment (we become your ISC) or Delegate (we do the work; you keep the title)
  • Advice and Insights
  • Representation at ISC meetings
  • NSTA contact point management (mailbox monitoring and escalation)
  • Data request liaison (missing data requests plus inter-company requests)
  • Annual compliance review

Annual subscription. Pricing based on portfolio size and well count.

Services

Pay as needed

On-demand access to the full range of ISC services.

  • Information and Samples Plans
  • NDR Reporting — Routine and/or Legacy (wells, seismic, site surveys and more)
  • Compliance Improvement Plans
  • North Sea exit programmes (including turnkey closeout service)
  • Offsite storage rationalisation (Core/Cuttings, Fluids, Records and Tapes)
  • Expert project management (M&A, Digitisation and more)
  • Data Discovery and Sourcing (supporting studies, core viewings and more — we find the data you need)

Additional services charged as used. Talk to us about your situation.

Who We Help

Built for licensees of every size and situation

Operators

Current Operators that need expert ISC cover but can’t support the overhead of a full in-house function, or those with higher activity who need to supplement their existing team.

Non-operators

Licensees who are not operators, but who need to appoint an ISC. We help you liberate your team to do their main job, keeping you updated with all the latest developments, taking care of basic needs and helping you ensure your operating partner is meeting compliance with data retention and reporting on your behalf as promised.

Legacy licensees

Organisations holding historic retention and reporting obligations from assets no longer in active operation. We manage the tail so your team doesn’t have to.

Exiting operators

Companies seeking a clean exit from the UKCS. We manage the full data closeout and ensure outstanding obligations are resolved before you leave.

Got a Specific Project?

NDR wells gap analysis and reporting

All licensees should be aware of their obligations on their legacy wells, in the wake of the recent NSTA request for plans on meeting PA98 wellbore compliance. For most this means reconciling the NDR against well documentation, hardcopy catalogues, and network drives. It is a real and common problem. Flare can do this work directly, using our own specialists and MiNDR, without the recruitment overhead, burden on your existing team or knowledge transfer risk.

  1. NDR health check and reclassification
    We review what is already reported to the NDR, correcting C-tag assignments where a single document covers multiple categories, and confirming that documents are correctly attributed to the right wellbore, including sidetracks and parent wells.
  2. Gap analysis and reporting
    Using MiNDR, we identify unreported content across your document stores, classify it against NSTA form and manner requirements, and submit it to the NDR. Where information is genuinely absent, we confirm and record “not acquired” or “not available” status so your compliance position is accurate, not just incomplete.
  3. Completeness report and audit trail
    We produce a formal wellbore completeness output covering every well in scope, suitable for internal review, regulatory audit, or onward action. You finish the project with a documented, defensible compliance position.
  4. Hosted, with no infrastructure overhead
    Expert guidance on your specific obligations, strategies for addressing backlogs or gaps, and project management of complex legacy data programmes.
  5. North Sea exit support
    For project engagements, we can host MiNDR securely on your behalf, so you get the full benefit of the platform without needing to provision your own environment. A practical option for bounded projects or operators who want results quickly.

    For operators who want a permanent solution with access to their full data ecosystem, MiNDR can also be deployed internally. Learn more about MiNDR →
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50+ years of combined NDR expertise

Our team brings more than 50 years of combined experience in NDR compliance and North Sea data management. We know the systems, the regulator, and the edge cases that catch operators out.

Purpose-built tooling

MiNDR, our sophisticated platform built specifically for NDR compliance: automating C-tag suggestions, monitoring completeness by field and wellbore, and maintaining the quality of submissions to the NSTA.

Working with the NSTA

Flare works directly with the NSTA’s Data Services team, supporting the quality and completeness of data available in the NDR. That relationship informs everything we do for our ISC clients.

Independent and focused

We don’t have competing priorities. ISC workflows and information management is all we do, which means your obligations get our full attention.

“The services Flare provides will continue to improve the quality of the data available on our Digital Energy Platform, which is of such importance to the industries and academic communities who derive value from the data we disclose.”

— David Lecore,
Head of Data Services & Compliance, North Sea Transition Authority

Get In Touch

Tell us about your situation. Whether you need full ISC cover, support with a specific programme, or just want to understand your current obligations, we’re happy to have a straightforward conversation. No pitch, no pressure.