UKOGL Trustees are pleased to announce that we have recently completed the archive and release of previously unavailable pre and post-stack digital data sets from a number of Deepwood Mining exploration surveys, located onshore in the SW Pennines, 40 years after they were recorded.

These original digital seismic data sets were not available to UKOGL when prints of seismic lines were scanned and vectorised for archiving in 2005.

The Trustees would like to thank the British Geological Survey for their assistance in rescuing these data and making them available for archive. The data had been stored in very poor conditions for many years and this was reflected in the state of the media when supplied to UKOGL. Data rescued consisted of a range of media formats, including 9 track magnetic reels, hardcopy paper and sepia sections, navigation plots and contoured base maps. A large proportion of the hardcopy paper and sepia media was damp and covered in mould, having to be dried out and cleaned before any attempt could be made to assess and archive.

The 9 track magnetic reels were in a similar condition and were sent out to Ovation Data for stiction treatment and transcription in order to maximise the data recovery process.

Despite the very poor condition of the data, a large proportion has been recovered and is now available from UKOGL.  Please contact us for more information.