42c59a43-1e9a-de4a-e063-3050940a2efc English dataset British Geological Survey +44 115 936 3100 Environmental Science Centre, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-03-19 UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608572 ED50 (EPSG::4230) Pore pressure data from the Bunter Sandstone Formation, Southern North Sea of the UK Continental Shelf 2025-11-03 creation http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608572 This dataset contains pore pressure measurements from the Bunter Sandstone Formation across the Southern North Sea of the UK Continental Shelf including quadrants 41 -50. The pressure measurements have been collected from released offshore legacy well records available from the UK National Data Repository (NDR) which is managed and served by the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA). The data were compiled by British Geological Survey researchers in support of research projects seeking to evaluate the potential of the Bunter Sandstone Formation for storage of carbon dioxide. These projects were funded by United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI). The dataset comprises direct pressure measurements from formation pressure testers (downhole tools containing a probe and packer on a retractable pad, a pretest chamber and pressure gauges) as well as formation pressure estimates from Drill Stem Tests (DST). Most of the measurements comprise results from Schlumberger’s Repeat Formation Tester (RFT), Formation Multi Tester (FMT) and Modular Dynamics Tester (MDT) tools. 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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]" vector English geoscientificInformation -0.4100 3.0600 53.0300 54.6800 2017-09-01 2025-09-01 Microsoft Excel witheld Microsoft Word witheld Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3143 0115 936 3276 Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk distributor Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available distributor https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item190527 WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Data download https://doi.org/10.5285/530ccd12-bfca-4112-b25c-e8c929f74964 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Williams, J. D. O. (2025). Pore pressure data from the Bunter Sandstone Formation, Southern North Sea of the UK Continental Shelf. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/530ccd12-bfca-4112-b25c-e8c929f74964 information dataset dataset INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology 2011 publication See the referenced specification false Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF false Data were initially collated from well records on an ad hoc basis during various studies to assess the suitability of the Bunter Sandstone Formation between 2014 and 2022. A systematic search for further data during the period 2022 to 2024 was conducted to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the pressure regimes across the formation, as described in Abel et al. (2025). In 2025, the dataset was revisited with a view to generating a fully consistent dataset as described above.