GEOLOGICAL DATA CENTRE
FACTS AND SERVICES

The department has the responsibility for the central archives and storage of geological samples. The archives and core storage includes all relevant datatypes acquired during oil and gas activities in the subsurface of Denmark and Greenland, marine geological data, as well as data acquired during exploitation for raw materials and from water supply wells. The department are value adding the informations reported on water supply wells with standard descriptions of the received samples and with statigraphic evaluations. The department responsibilities include library services. A special responsibility is the handling of the equipment for expeditions in Greenland, activities which are physically integrateded with the corestorage.

Data sales and information services are an integrated part of the general databank activities. In order to be able to deliver data in the right formats and medias, the department has specialised in all relevant copying including copying between most digital medias.

• Corestore
  
  
• Library
  
  
• Subsurface data archive
  Based on the 'Act No. 293 of June 10, 1981, concerning the use of the Danish subsurface' all data, acquired during activities in the Danish subsurface must be forwarded to the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS). This means that GEUS is the national databank for all types of data from the Danish subsurface.
  In accordance with "Agreement between the Greenland Home Rule Government and the Danish Government on the administration of mineral resources in Greenland as of 1st July 1998" all data from activities in Greenland are stored in the GEUS databank.
  Data are generally kept confidential for five years - well data from the completion date and geophysical data from the processing date. Completion and processing dates are listed below and in our data catalogues.
  • Geophysical data
  • Well data (deep wells)
  • Prices and sales conditions
  • Latest releases
    Wells
    
    
• Well data archive (shallow wells)
  In 1926 the Danish Parliament passed a law requiring that information from all new water supply related borings must be reported. In response to this law, a well data archive was founded in 1926 at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS). The archive contains geological, hydrological, geotechnical and administrative data.