4c8fcf89-bcce-0858-e054-002128a47908 2025-04-03T00:00:00Z 2026-10-05T00:00:00Z eng UK in-situ stress field orientation from borehole breakouts and drilling induced tensile fractures identified using borehole imaging This datasets contains 323 observations of borehole breakouts across and drilling induced tensile fractures from borehole imaging used to re-characterise the UK stress field orientation in 2016. This was published in the Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology and is openly available using doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.02.012 The observations relate to 39 wells from Central England, Northern England and Northern Scotland and are provided with links to screen grabs of the images for clarity. The basic well metadata is supplied along with a description of the dataset. The Images were generated in the IMAGE DISPLAY module of the Landmark RECALL software and are supplied on an “as shown” basis. Descriptions of the tools and the techniques used are listed in the accompanying paper: KINGDON, A., FELLGETT, M. W. & WILLIAMS, J. D. O. 2016. Use of borehole imaging to improve understanding of the in-situ stress orientation of Central and Northern England and its implications for unconventional hydrocarbon resources. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 73, 1-20. http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607137 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z 2026-10-05T00:00:00Z eng British Geological Survey distributor enquiries@bgs.ac.uk British Geological Survey pointOfContact enquiries@bgs.ac.uk NERC_DDC data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE) Citable Data Drilling Stress field Boreholes Borehole imaging Fractured rock Tensile strength Geology CENTRAL ENGLAND [id=157000] NORTHERN ENGLAND [id=151000] SCOTLAND [id=140000] SCT Dataset UK in-situ stress field orientation from borehole breakouts and drilling induced tensile fractures identified using borehole imaging {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[-3.5008,52.7012],[-0.5999,52.7012],[-0.5999,58.5828],[-3.5008,58.5828],[-3.5008,52.7012]]]} 2015-01-04T00:00:00Z 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI) British Geological Survey. (2017). UK in-situ stress field orientation from borehole breakouts and drilling induced tensile fractures identified using borehole imaging [Data set]. British Geological Survey. https://doi.org/10.5285/cb9c22d8-53f1-489f-b4d3-5d008d2a7841 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related The images were derived from raw: Las, Lis and Dlis files. They were processed using the Landmark Recall Software. The breakouts and drilling induced tensile fractures were interpreted by Mark Fellgett and Andy Kingdon using the IMAGE DISPLAY module of the RECALL software.