I did something silly today and imported a bunch of data from a government released shapefile before spotting the Crown Copyright. To be fair the rest of the site talked about non-exclusive usage and making data open to the public, whilst the disclaimer of it all being Crown Copyright was hidden away.

I've removed the import I made, have contacted the relevant agency requesting to use their data, and have generated a map to show the data which I aim to import if given the go ahead.

I'm really hoping we get the go ahead on using this data, since it covers all UK oil wells both current and disused. The map I've generated shows all the active ones, whilst there are 11015 disused ones which could be added if desired. There are also other interesting oil-related shapefiles which might be interesting.

Finally, there are no official tags for oil wells. Canvec suggests that man_made=petroleum_well is how it should be tagged, but that isn't official and doesn't get rendered.