Samba contains information on drilling and geophysical surveys on Danish territory, carried out according to license under the Danish underground law. That is: seismic surveys as well as boreholes for exploration, delimitation and production wells concerning oil/gas, geothermal energy, gas storage and salt as well as scientific drilling. The data sets contain technical, administrative and geological information from drillings and geophysical measurements undertaken in boreholes (boreholelogs and reports) as well as metadata (location, recording and processing parameters, etc.) for seismic studies. Data are reported by the companies who carries out the drillings and surveys. The database is updated on an ongoing basis.
Samba database was established in 1988 in a cooperation between the then DGU (now GEUS) and the Danish Energy Agency. The oldest drill log in the database is from 1936. The database contains today 2000 wells and 1400 seismic surveys. GEUS e-shop Frisbee, introduced in 2014, made download and purchase of data from released assessment- and exploration drillings in Denmark possible. Data can be purchased with credit card or per invoice. Well Completion Report and Deviation Data are freely downloadable. Since 2016 3D seismic data are likewise distributed through Frisbee.