Oil and Gas Exploration and Production in the United States Shown as Quarter-Mile Cells

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Biewick, Laura R.H.

Publication_Date: 2008

Title:

Oil and Gas Exploration and Production in the United States Shown as Quarter-Mile Cells

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Downloadable GIS Data

Publication_Information:

Publisher: U. S. Geological Survey

Publication_Place: Denver, Colorado

Online_Linkage: <http://energy.cr.usgs.gov/oilgas/noga/>

Larger_Work_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Biewick, Laura R.H.

Publication_Date: 2008

Title:

Areas of Historical Oil and Gas Exploration and Production in the United States

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Digital Maps

Series_Information:

Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series

Issue_Identification: DDS-069-Q

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Denver, Colorado

Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: <http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-q/>

Description:

Abstract:

A cells polygon feature class was created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to illustrate the degree of exploration, type of production, and distribution of production in the United States. Each cell represents a quarter-mile square of the land surface, and the cells are coded to represent whether the wells included within the cell are predominantly oil-producing, gas-producing, both oil and gas-producing, or the type of production of the wells located within the cell is unknown or dry. The well information was initially retrieved from IHS Inc.'s PI/Dwights PLUS Well Data on CD-ROM, which is a proprietary, commercial database containing information for most oil and gas wells in the U.S. Cells were developed as a graphic solution to overcome the problem of displaying proprietary well data. No proprietary data are displayed or included in the cell maps. The data are current through 10/1/2005.

Purpose:

This Geographic Information System (GIS) dataset was created to display present and past oil and gas production in the United States, as well as the location and intensity of exploratory drilling outside producing areas. This map compilation is an updated version of the USGS map that was published by Mast and others (1998). This product differs from other oil and gas maps of the United States in the following ways: (1) the oil and gas data sources are current as of 2004 through 2006, (2) base cartographic reference data are included, using the USGS National Map and a World Shaded Relief map service from the ESRI geography network, (3) an internet map service is available online, (4) Alaska oil and gas data are included. To construct this map, digital data were used from more than 3 million wells in IHS Inc.'s PI/Dwights PLUS Well Data on CD-ROM, current through 10/1/2005. In some areas, the PI/Dwights data tend not to be complete, particularly for pre-1920 production. IHS data was supplemented with state wells databases for Indiana, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Illinois, and Ohio, (current as of 2004 to 2006).

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 1859

Ending_Date: 2005

Currentness_Reference: The data are current through 10/1/2005

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -178.309436

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -67.202642

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 71.861587

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 19.440480

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: Gateway to the Earth draft 9 28-Jun-2002

Theme_Keyword: Natural gas resources

Theme_Keyword: Oil shale resources

Theme_Keyword: Oil sand resources

Theme_Keyword: Coalbed methane resources

Theme_Keyword: Economic geology

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ArcIMS Metadata Server Theme Codes

Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation

Theme_Keyword: economy

Theme_Keyword: environment

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Energy Program Themes Thesaurus

Theme_Keyword: Impacts of Energy Production

Theme_Keyword: Coalbed Methane

Theme_Keyword: Sedimentary Basin

Theme_Keyword: Oil and Natural Gas

Theme_Keyword: Energy Resources

Theme_Keyword: Earth Science

Theme_Keyword: Natural Resources

Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey

Theme_Keyword: USGS

Theme_Keyword: Geology

Theme_Keyword: Natural Gas

Theme_Keyword: Petroleum

Theme_Keyword: Oil

Theme_Keyword: Gas

Theme_Keyword: Oil and Gas Exploration

Theme_Keyword: Oil and Gas Production

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: OIL WELL

Theme_Keyword: GAS WELL

Theme_Keyword: PETROLEUM

Theme_Keyword: LOCATION

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword: U.S.

Place_Keyword: United States

Place_Keyword: North America

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Board of Geographic Names

Place_Keyword: USA

Place_Keyword: United States of America

Access_Constraints: None

Use_Constraints:

This database may not be distributed in whole or in part without acknowledgement of IHS Energy, Inc., and the U.S. Geological Survey.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey, Central Energy Resources Team

Contact_Person: Laura R.H. Biewick

Contact_Position: Geologist / GIS Coordinator

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address:

U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, MS 939, Denver Federal Center

City: Denver

State_or_Province: Colorado

Postal_Code: 80225

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 303-236-7773

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: datamgt@usgs.gov

Browse_Graphic:

Browse_Graphic_File_Name:

<http://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/data/noga00/natl/graphic/uscells05g.jpg>

Browse_Graphic_File_Description:

Thumbnail view of oil and gas cells in the contiguous United States

Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG

Native_Data_Set_Environment: ESRI ArcInfo

Data_Set_Credit:

To aggregate well data into quarter-mile cells, oil and gas well data were run through an Arc Macro Language (AML) program written by L.R.H. Biewick, S. Weiler, and C.C. Skinner.

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

The cell locations and cell attributes were visually compared to the hard-copy map: Mast, R.F., Root, D.H., Williams, L.P., Beeman, W.R., and Barnett, D.L., 1998, Areas of historical oil and gas exploration and production in the conterminous United States: U.S. Geological Survey Oil and Gas Investigations Map I-2582, 1 sheet; <http://energy.cr.usgs.gov/oilgas/noga/oilgasmap.htm> and <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1995/ofr-95-0075-c/>

Logical_Consistency_Report:

The accuracy of the cells, as created by the Arc Macro Language (AML) program of L.R.H. Biewick, S. Weiler and C.C. Skinner, depends upon the accuracy of IHS Inc.'s PI/Dwights PLUS Well Data on CD-ROM. For the USGS map compilation showing Areas of Historical Oil and Gas Exploration and Production in the United States, the assumption was made that the data from the IHS Energy, Inc., PI/Dwights PLUS Well Data were of sufficient accuracy for such a national-scale analysis.

Completeness_Report:

The cells were defined using the well data in the IHS Energy, Inc., PI/Dwights PLUS Well database. The IHS, Inc. database contains over three million wells for the U.S., which, although not a complete tabulation of all U.S. wells, is the most complete well database available for the United States.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

A visual comparison was made using a sampling of cell locations and cell attributes with well locations and attributes. In particular, the values of latitude and longitude for the wells in IHS, Inc. were assumed to be accurate.

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Not applicable.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: IHS Energy Group

Publication_Date: 20051001

Title: PI/Dwights PLUS Well Data on CD-ROM

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Denver, Colorado

Publisher: IHS Energy Group

Type_of_Source_Media: CD-ROM

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 2005

Source_Currentness_Reference: data current through 10/1/2005

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: PI/Dwights PLUS Well Data on CD-ROM

Source_Contribution: Lat./Long. Points, Final Well Class

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Because of the proprietary nature of the more than 3 million wells in IHS Inc.'s PI/Dwights PLUS Well Data, the area of the United States was divided into cells one quarter mile square and the production information of each well is aggregated in each cell. To accomplish this, oil and gas well data for the United States were run through an Arc Macro Language (AML) program written by L.R.H. Biewick, S. Weiler, and C.C. Skinner. This program aggregated and converted the 2005 PI/Dwights PLUS Well Data into quarter-mile cells and latitude-longitude points that represent the center-points of the quarter-mile cells. The cells were then assigned an attribute based on the type of production of the wells located within the cell.

Process_Date: 2006

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey, Central Energy Resources Team

Contact_Person: Laura R.H. Biewick

Contact_Position: Geologist / GIS Coordinator

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address:

U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, MS 939, Denver Federal Center

City: Denver

State_or_Province: Colorado

Postal_Code: 80225

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 303-236-7773

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: datamgt@usgs.gov

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: G-polygon

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Geographic:

Latitude_Resolution: 0.000001

Longitude_Resolution: 0.000001

Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983

Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80

Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: uscells05g

Entity_Type_Definition: Polygon attribute table

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: CC83XCOORD

Attribute_Definition: Center-cell X-coordinate

Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: -178.309436

Range_Domain_Maximum: -67.202642

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: CC83YCOORD

Attribute_Definition: Center-cell Y-coordinate

Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 19.440480

Range_Domain_Maximum: 71.861587

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: CELLSYMB

Attribute_Definition: Production Status

Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:

Cell contains at least one productive oil well, but no productive gas wells (green).

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 2

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:

Cell contains at least one productive gas well, but no productive oil wells (red).

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 3

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:

Cell contains at least one productive oil well and at least one productive gas well or one well producing both oil and gas (gold).

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 4

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:

The type of production of the wells located within the cell is unknown, or the wells within the cell had no production (charcoal).

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: Information Services

Address: Box 25286 Denver Federal Center

City: Denver

State_or_Province: Colorado

Postal_Code: 80225

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-888-ASK-USGS

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 303-202-4693

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: ask@usgs.gov

Contact_Instructions:

The dataset is available at the Energy Program website - <http://energy.usgs.gov/>

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 303-202-4700

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: datamgt@usgs.gov

Resource_Description: Downloadable Data

Distribution_Liability:

Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system, or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. The U.S. Geological survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Although this information product, for the most part, is in the public domain, it also contains copyrighted materials as noted in the text. Permission to reproduce copyrighted items for other than personal use must be secured from the copyright owner.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: Shapefile

Format_Information_Content:

Oil and gas quarter-mile cell geographic features and attribute data

File_Decompression_Technique: unzip

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

<http://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/data/noga00/natl/spatial/shape/uscells05g.zip>

Access_Instructions:

The URL above links to a zipped file containing oil and gas cells for the United States.

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: ArcInfo Export File

Format_Information_Content:

Oil and gas quarter-mile cell geographic features and attribute data

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

<http://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/data/noga00/natl/spatial/export/uscells05ge.zip>

Access_Instructions:

The URL above links to a zipped file containing oil and gas cells for the United States.

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: Image Map Service (US_Production)

Format_Version_Number: 9x

Format_Specification: ArcIMS Image Map Service

Format_Information_Content:

A web-based interactive mapping system that accesses an ArcIMS Map Service running on certmapper.cr.usgs.gov.

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

<http://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/pubs/servlet/MapViewerBroker?project=national&Service=US_Production&OVMap=US_overview>

Access_Instructions:

This URL links to a web-based interactive mapping system that accesses an ArcIMS Image Map Service. The mapservice can also be accessed using any custom client that adheres to the protocol specified through ArcXML.

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: ArcGIS Geodatabase File

Format_Version_Number: 9x

Format_Information_Content:

Contains polygon features depicting oil and gas cells in the United States

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

<http://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/data/noga00/natl/spatial/geodatabase/uscells06gg.zip>

Access_Instructions:

The URL above links to a zipped file containing oil and gas cells for the U.S. as well as the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Pennsylvania.

Fees: None

Ordering_Instructions:

These products can be downloaded individually using any one of the Network_Resource_Name URLs above. Each of these URLs provide access to various formats of these data.

Custom_Order_Process:

Send email to datamgt@usgs.gov or call the USGS Central Energy Team main office at 303-236-1644.

Technical_Prerequisites: Requires software that reads GIS data.

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20071219

Metadata_Review_Date: 20071217

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey, Central Energy Resources Team

Contact_Person: Laura R.H. Biewick

Contact_Position: Geologist / GIS Coordinator

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address:

U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, MS 939, Denver Federal Center

City: Denver

State_or_Province: Colorado

Postal_Code: 80225

Country: USA

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: datamgt@usgs.gov

Contact_Instructions:

For inquiries regarding this document, please include the metadata contact person's name, dataset name, and publication series and number.

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 303-236-7773

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time

Metadata_Extensions:

Online_Linkage: <http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html>

Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile