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Annual Report
The actual report gives a review of the results of exploration and production of oil and gas and underground gas storage in Germany.
Mining proprietorship
Whoever wishes to mine freely mineable resources requires a production licence for this according to § 8 of the Mining Law or the mining proprietorship (more recently) according to § 9 of the Mining Law. Licences are granted by the responsible authorities.
Old Rights (§ 149 ff Federal Mining Law)
This deals with mining authorizations issued before 1982 that have been incorporated into the new law after the Federal Mining Law came into effect. The following authorization forms are still of practical significance today
Production licence
Whoever wishes to mine freely mineable resources requires a production licence according to § 8 of the Mining Law or the mining proprietorship (more recently) according to § 9 of the Mining Law. Licences are granted by the responsible authorities.
Exploration licence
Whoever wishes to explore for freely mineable resources (exploration = the search for mineable resources or establishment of the extent of mineable resources) requires an exploration licence according to § 7 of the Mining Law. Exploration licences are granted by the responsible authorities.
Mining authorizations
The search for economically meaningful natural resources like for example hydrocarbon, coal, lignite, potash and rock salt and their mining are subjected to the regulations of the Federal Mining Law in Germany.
LBEG Web Map Services
The LBEG provides maps in the Internet as WMS (Web map service or Internet map service) in a set of selectable projections. Therefore, the maps of the LBEG can be displayed directly in different applications. Legends are available as well by the WMS.
The LBEG Map Server cardo.map
With its map server cardo.map the LBEG provides data from the following topics:Soil mapping, Geology, Hydrogeology, Raw Materials, Engineering Geology and Abandoned Waste Sites.
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Our Flyers in English
- The LBEG presents itself (PDF, 4258 KB)
Flyer of NIBIS® MAPSERVER
- Flyer of NIBIS® MAPSERVER (PDF, 3667 KB)
Downloads for Guidelines in the Oil & Gas Business in Germany
- Guidelines for the Reporting of Geophysical and Geological Data Acquired in Licence Areas for Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production as well as in Underground Porous Rock Gas Storage (PDF, 61 KB)
- Legislation, Licensing and Fiscal regime for oil and gas exploration and production in Germany (PDF, 28 KB)
- Granting of exploration licences and production licences according to the Federal Mining Law (PDF, 65 KB)