BGS National Geological Repository (NGR) and OpenGeoscience
BGS national store of cores/cuttings: >15,000 onshore boreholes, ~8,000 UKCS wells; 1.3M scanned borehole records and 125,000 HD core images free via OpenGeoscience
- Publisher
- British Geological Survey (UKRI/NERC)
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Category
- Repository
- Disciplines
- Core, Reports and documents, Geology and maps, Well headers and locations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence – British Geological Survey; BGS Open Licence; BGS Non-Commercial Use Licence; BGS Viewer Licence
- Formats
- escaneos, imágenes
- Volume
- Más de 250 km terrestres; más de 350 km de drillcore y 4.5 millones de muestras de cuttings offshore; más de 1.3 millones de registros escaneados; 125 000 imágenes HD de núcleos
- Wells
- Más de 15 000 sondeos terrestres; aproximadamente 8000 pozos UKCS
- Record id
bgs-ngr-opengeoscience· JSON
Verification
Read on 2026-11-04 by a web reader that only opens the page, never downloads data. Status of the page: ok. Relevance to subsurface work: alta.
- Type
- portal
- Access as written
- abierto (digital); acceso físico de pago (recuperación de costes); nuevos depósitos cerrados desde 07/10/2026
- Licence as written
- no consta
Quoted from the source
Over 350 km of drillcore and 4.5 million samples of cuttings from approximately 8000 wells
— bgs.ac.uk/geological-data/national-geological-repositoryExamples include over 1.3 million scanned UK onshore borehole records and 125 000 high-definition images of cores
— bgs.ac.uk/geological-data/national-geological-repositoryWe reserve the right to charge users on a cost recovery basis for access to our physical collections.
— bgs.ac.uk/geological-data/national-geological-repositorythe following acknowledgement must accompany the reproduced BGS materials
— bgs.ac.uk/geological-data/opengeoscience
Research notes
Licencia por producto, indicada arriba de cada página, por eso redistribución restringida en general; textos de licencia no leídos. Atribución: 'Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI [year]'. Subsampling limitado, con entrega de datos al NGR: 'The raw data is freely available two years after sampling.' Cerrado a nuevos depósitos desde 07/10/2026, pero abierto para acceder a colecciones. Según noticia de 2024, la información de pozos offshore pasó al National Data Repository de NSTA; otra de 2023 anuncia datos abiertos de pozos terrestres profundos. Noticias vistas solo como titular.
Notes are kept in the working language of the research (Spanish).
Cite this record
Credit the original provider first; mention Open Well Data (Daniel Delgado-Uriarte) if it helped you find or check the source.
British Geological Survey (UKRI/NERC). BGS National Geological Repository (NGR) and OpenGeoscience. https://www.bgs.ac.uk/geological-data/national-geological-repository/. Page checked by Open Well Data on 2026-11-04. Found through Open Well Data (Delgado-Uriarte, 2026), https://openwelldata.org/source/bgs-ngr-opengeoscience/.