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Baseline seismic monitoring survey for UKGEOS Glasgow geothermal production using Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) and hydrophones

This dataset contains the acquired distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) and hydrophone datasets from a project investigating the usage DAS at the UK Geoenergy Observatory (UKGEOS) research facility in Glasgow, funded by the UK Unconventional Hydrocarbons (UKUH) small project grant. The UKGEOS site in Glasgow has repurposed an abandoned coal mine to investigate its potential as a heat source and heat sink, and its borehole infrastructure includes pre-installed fibre-optic cables. DAS is a novel seismic monitoring technique that utilizes fibre-optic cables to measure small acoustic and seismic vibrations. Comparable to a very densely spaced hydrophone or geophone array, DAS provides unparalleled data resolution and insights into the subsurface. This dataset provides both active source and passive measurements of DAS at the UKGEOS Site 2 prior to the heat pump installation, providing geophysical baseline measurements of the mine. Alongside the acquired DAS data, data from a hydrophone array co-located to the fibre-optic cable was collected during the active source survey to provide a means of comparison to the DAS. NERC and ESRC jointly funded Unconventional Hydrocarbons in the UK Energy System Programme grant - Baseline seismic monitoring survey for UKGEOS Glasgow geothermal production using Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS)

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Date (Creation)
2022-11-21
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608016
Originator
  University of Bristol - Joanna Holmgren
School of Earth Sciences, Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Clifton , Bristol , BS8 1RJ ,
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Maintenance and update frequency
notApplicable notApplicable
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • NGDC Deposited Data
  • Velocity logging
  • Geothermal surveys
  • Abrasion
  • Seismic surveys
  • Base line data
dataCentre
  • NGDC Deposited Data
  • UKGEOS
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
licenceOGL
Other constraints
Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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
There are no restrictions on the use that may be made of the dataset, although an appropriate copyright acknowledgement must be made when any part of the dataset is reproduced. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely available without any use constraints - inclusion of any third party data / information will affect the copyright acknowledgement that needs to be made.
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
2022-01-31
End date
2022-02-02

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Distribution format
  • Power Point format (for survey details). ()

  • .dat ()

  • .csv ()

  • Silixa's tdms ()

Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
OnLine resource
Data
Hierarchy level
nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
Other
non geographic dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
No

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
Pass
No
Statement
The seismic monitoring survey was carried out at site 2 at UKGEOS Glasgow, using the two boreholes GGA04 and GGA05 (drilled to depths of 53 and 88 meters, respectively). GGA05 was used as the receiver borehole, hosting the fibre-optic cable and the DHA-7 24-channel hydrophones. The DAS was recorded using a Silixa DAS interrogator (iDAS). GGA04 acted as the source borehole, into which a SGS42 Sparker Probe was lowered and connected to an Impulse Generator (IPG) 5000 Downhole Sparker to generate P-waves. During the active survey, the P-wave sparker was set off in 4-meter intervals between 6- and 46-meters depth, and set off 6-7 times at each shot depth. For the passive survey, the iDAS was acquiring during the night (23:00 to 07:45) between February 1st to 2nd. There was ongoing construction at the site during all three days of surveying.
File identifier
f287da43-4912-77ff-e053-0937940a0d43 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
Hierarchy level name
non geographic dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-13
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608016
 
 

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