GBR BGS Onshore hydrocarbon wells

This layer of the map based index (GeoIndex) shows the location of hydrocarbon wells known to BGS. Exploration for hydrocarbons by drilling began in the 19th century and locations were recorded in latitude/longitude until about 1960. These locations have been converted to national grid. The majority of the wells have formed part of basin studies by BGS and are therefore reliably located. There may be some discrepancies in location data between various databases, originating from project modifications and which original source was preferred.

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Date (Revision): 2022-04-08T08:20:10

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Garry Baker	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Theme

Boreholes
GeoIndex
Onshore hydrocarbon wells
OneGeology
continent@Europe
subcontinent@Northern Europe
geographicarea@United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
dataprovider@British Geological Survey
serviceprovider@British Geological Survey
DS_TOPIC@geoscientificinformation
DS_DATE@2022
thematic@Borehole
thematic@Oil

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Reference system identifier: CRS:84

Reference system identifier: EPSG:4326

Reference system identifier: EPSG:4258

Reference system identifier: EPSG:27700

Reference system identifier: EPSG:3857

Distribution format

Name	Version

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map	https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/GeoIndex_Onshore/boreholes/MapServer/WmsServer?	Onshore.hydrocarbon.wells
application/xml	https://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw?SERVICE=CSW&REQUEST=GetRecordById&ID=9df8df53-2a77-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98&elementSetName=full&OutputSchema=http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd&version=2.0.2&	Onshore.hydrocarbon.wells (MetadataURL)
image/png	https://map.bgs.ac.uk/BGS_WMS/legends/geoindex/ohw.png	Onshore hydrocarbon wells (LegendURL)