Svalbard Rock Vault - liberating vintage geoscience data from Svalbard

• Main Authors: Senger, Kim, Smyrak-Sikora, Aleksandra, Kuckero, Lilith, Rodes, Nil, Betlem, Peter
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: geology; Svalbard; petroleum; exploration; Arctic; UNIS; University Centre in Svalbard
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5919082

The Svalbard Rock Vault project (www.svalbox.no/srv) has the main objective to recover vintage geoscientific data from Svalbard's geoscientific exploration, in particular the overlooked petroleum exploration onshore Svalbard. Eighteen boreholes were drilled from 1961 to 1994 but data are only available as fragments.These data are systematicallycollected, digitized and made available for research purposes by the Svalbox team at the University Centre in Svalbard. This initial data set publication includes three overview spreadsheets: 1) An overview of the archive material of Norsk Polar Navigasjon (NPN), a private company that was involved in many of the exploration boreholes. The physical archive is available at UNIS and scans are available upon request. 2) An overview of the archive material related to the Tromsøbreen II exploration borehole, drilled in 1988. The physical archive is in Lund, Sweden, and most of it has been digitized by UNIS and scans are available upon request. 3) An overview of the data available from the eighteen exploration boreholes, including wireline log data, reports and analyses. The data are also integrated in a Petrel project available at UNIS. More data will be added as they are (re-)discovered.