Undersea geological data is now available online. The British Geological Survey (BGS)  is using GIS to maintain a na­tional archive of geological data to provide access to the public as well as government, industry, and academic users. One of these applications, developed for Common Data Access Limited, a not-for-profit subsidiary of the United Kingdom Offshore Operators Association, is the Digital Energy Atlas Library (DEAL) Web site.

Since DEAL was launched in 2000, BGS has achieved its objective of meeting the demand for quick and simple access to a single, complete, and reliable reference set of basic spatial and attribute data about United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS).

DEAL has more than 5,000 registered users who generate more than one million hits on the Web site each month. DEAL is now established as the definitive site for well and seis­mic metadata for UKCS.

  • Read Surf for Sea Data by Amelia Pickering of the British Geological Survey (BGS) for more information about BGS and DEAL.
  • Visit the DEAL Web site.