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Ten years of drilling activities in the Netherlands
7 March 2024
What does the data show when drilling for geothermal energy, oil, gas and salt in the Netherlands? An overview of drilling activities in the Netherlands show us a record in the number of geothermal wells being drilled in the past year. Wells drilled for oil- and gas also showed a record last year, though in
Consortium with GDN searches for Stone Age remains in North Sea bed
8 December 2023
With six European scientific institutions, the Geological Survey of the Netherlands (GDN), part of TNO, will develop and test a method to find traces of Stone Age habitation in the upper North Sea bed.
New: the subsurface in your 3D environment
20 November 2023
The Geological Survey of the Netherlands, part of TNO, together with ESRI, Kadaster and BZK, has developed the very first 3D web services on the National Key Registry of the Subsurface. This is an important milestone in the possibilities of 3D geodata. The first basic version of BRO 3D is now ready for use.
Subsurface of Almere in GeoTOP
18 October 2023
The GeoTOP model has been expanded to include Almere and the surrounding water. This new version of GeoTOP has been available since October 12, 2023. The expansion of GeoTOP comprises the south-western part of the Flevopolder. It covers the municipality of Almere and the surrounding area, including the surrounding waters. Within this coverage we find housing development areas such as Almere Pampus and Eemvallei Stad, and the route of the planned infrastructural connection between Almere Pampus and IJburg. These additions make the latest version of GeoTOP extra valuable.
Netherlands Geological Survey makes datasets available on a European scale
29 September 2023
View and use pan-European subsurface datasets The Geological Survey of the Netherlands (GDN), part of TNO, offers open, harmonised and standardised data sets of the Dutch subsurface via its various portals such as Dinoloket and NLOG. We are also working with other geological surveys and scientific institutes in a pan-European setting to build a Geological
Annual report 2022 – Natural Resources and Geothermal Energy in the Netherlands
6 September 2023
The latest annual report ‘Natural Resources and Geothermal Energy in the Netherlands’ 2022is available online!Like previous years, this annual review reports on all exploration, production and storage activities in the Netherlands (both onshore and offshore) under the Mining Act. Do you want to know more about the resources and production of natural gas and oil,
Projects
Paleo-Five: the final frontier in North Sea exploration
As part of the cross-border Paleo-Five Project, researchers from the Geological Survey of the Netherlands (GDN) and the British Geological Survey (BGS) worked on mapping out ancient, deeply buried rock strata from the Carboniferous period. Experts from the fields of geology, geochemistry, paleo-ecology, and seismology studied the geological distribution and composition of these rock layers for an offshore area shared by five countries in the southern and central North Sea.
GDN advises geological survey of Saudi Arabia
As the second largest oil-producing country in the world, Saudi Arabia wants to anticipate the global transition to sustainable energy sources. The country has embarked on a diversification strategy with the mining sector as its economy’s new big driver. An important step in this is the creation of a geological database. The Geological Survey of the Netherlands (GDN) is part of a consortium supporting this ambition.