Date (Creation)

2000

Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605437

Maintenance and update frequency

asNeeded As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• UK Location (INSPIRE)
• Boreholes
• Down hole geophysics
• Hydrocarbons
• Exploratory wells
• Geophysics
• Geophysical logs
• Well logging

dataCentre

• UK Location (INSPIRE)

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Access constraints

otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints

no limitations

Other constraints

restricted

Other constraints

The dataset has been formally approved by BGS for access by external clients under a BGS Digital Data Licence, issued via BGS's IPR Section. The dataset must not be provided to, or be accessible by, an external client until the IPR Section confirms that signed licence documentation is in place. Refer to the IPR Section (DigitalLE@bgs.ac.) if further advice is required.

Other constraints

The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner(s) of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely accessible.

Use constraints

otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints

The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints

Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section (ipr@bgs.ac.uk ) for advice, should the position not be clear.

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Metadata language

EnglishEnglish

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

GBN

Date (Revision)

2009

Geographic identifier

GREAT BRITAIN [id=139600]

Date (Creation)

1979

Begin date

1900 Before

End date

2014-01 Before

Unique resource identifier

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)

Unique resource identifier

WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)

Distribution format

• Log ASCII Standard (LAS) file (.las) ()

• Log Information Standard (LIS) file (.lis) ()

• SEG-Y file (.sgy, .segy) ()

• PDF file (.pdf) ()

• TIFF image (.tif, .tiff) ()

• Paper hard-copy records ()

• Comma-Separated Values (CSV) file (.csv) ()

• Microsoft Word document (any version) ()

• Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (any version) ()

OnLine resource

British Geological Survey (BGS) GeoIndex - Boreholes data theme ( OGC:WMS )

The WMS layer for 'Onshore.hydrocarbon.wells' is provided through this OGC WMS (view) service. This URL is the service end-point and is intended for consumption by software clients that understand the WMS API.

OnLine resource

GeoIndex Onshore: Onshore UK Hydrocarbon Well Data ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

OnLine resource

British Geological Survey (BGS) GeoIndex - Boreholes data theme ( OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities )

One or more layers for the dataset is provided through this OGC WMS (view) service.

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

The database represents an aggregation of the geophysical log data held by BGS which originate from various sources, with different lineages, processing and quality control steps.

File identifier

9df8df53-2a77-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML

Metadata language

EnglishEnglish

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Date stamp

2025-11-13

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605437