U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-439

U.S. Geological Survey
Open-File Report 02-439
Version 1.0
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U.S. Geological Survey 2002 Petroleum Resource Assessment of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA): GIS Play Maps

By Christopher P. Garrity, David W. Houseknecht, and Kenneth J. Bird

Introduction

This report provides digital GIS files of maps for each of the 24 plays evaluated in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 2002 petroleum resource assessment of the NPRA (Bird and Houseknecht, 2002a). These are the same maps released in pdf format by Bird and Houseknecht (2002b).

The USGS released in 2002 a summary of the estimated volume of technically recoverable, undiscovered oil and nonassociated gas resources for 24 plays in NPRA (Bird and Houseknecht, 2002b). The NPRA assessment study area includes Federal and Native onshore land and adjacent State offshore areas. A map showing the areal extent of each play was prepared by USGS geologists as a preliminary step in the assessment process. Boundaries were drawn on the basis of a variety of information, including seismic reflection data, results of previous exploration drilling, and regional patterns of rock properties. Play boundary polygons were captured by digitizing the play maps prepared by USGS geologists. Federal, Native, and State areas were later clipped from the play boundary polygons, allowing for acreages to be calculated for entire plays and for various subareas within plays.

References Cited

Bird, K.J., and Houseknecht, D.W., 2002a, U.S. Geological Survey 2002 petroleum resource assessment of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA): U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 045-02, 6 p. Available online at: http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/fact-sheet/fs045-02/

Bird, K.J., and Houseknecht, D.W., 2002b, U.S. Geological Survey 2002 petroleum resource assessment of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA): Play maps and technically recoverable resource estimates: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-207, 18 p. Available online at: http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of02-207/

Online Links

National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska - 2002 Assessment: http://energy.usgs.gov/npra.html

Download Online Files

GIS Play Maps (Compressed) [28.8 MB]

Accessing the Assessment Maps on Your Computer

This ArcView project has a compressed directory strucuture and should be extracted to the user's hard drive by following the directions below:

Open the .zip file with Winzip and click the "extract" radio button. Make sure the project is extracted to a folder whose path has no spaces. For example, if the user wishes to extract the project to "C:/new folder/npra gis project", it should be renamed to "C:/new_folder/npra_gis_project" to avoid errors upon opening.
If "This project cannot be opened" error appears, check to make sure there are no spaces in the directory path.
After the project has been extracted to the hard drive, click "npra_assess_ofr.apr" to be taken to the introductory page.

System Requirements (minimum)

Microsoft Windows:

Intel Pentium processor-based personal computer (or equivalent)
Microsoft Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 5 or later, Windows 98 Second Edition, or Windows 95 Service Release 2 (OSR 2)
64 MB of RAM

Disclaimer

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Contact Information

For questions about the scientific content of this report, contact Chris Garrity or Dave Houseknecht.

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