Introduction
The purpose of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS)
National Oil and Gas Assessment is to develop geology-based hypotheses
regarding the potential for additions to oil and gas reserves in priority
areas of the United States, focusing on the distribution, quantity, and
availability of oil and natural gas resources. The USGS has recently completed
an assessment of the undiscovered oil and gas potential of the Uinta-Piceance
Province of northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado (USGS Province
5020). The Uinta-Piceance Province is a priority province for the National
Assessment because of its potential for significant natural gas resources.
The assessment of this province is based on geologic
principles and uses the total petroleum system concept. The geologic elements
of a total petroleum system include hydrocarbon source rocks (source rock
maturation, hydrocarbon generation and migration), reservoir rocks (sequence
stratigraphy, petrophysical properties), and hydrocarbon traps (trap formation
and timing). In the Uinta-Piceance Province, the USGS used this geologic
framework to define five total petroleum systems and 20 assessment units
within the total petroleum systems, and quantitatively estimated the undiscovered
oil and gas resources within each assessment unit.
Many more details about the project and about individual
chapters of this report are readily available in the very readable Chapter
2 of this volume, “The Uinta-Piceance Province—Introduction to a geologic
assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources.” Use Acrobat Reader to
access the PDF for this chapter.
Contact
Information
This volume is one of a series of products resulting
from the National Oil and Gas Assessment project of the U.S. Geological
Survey. Inquiries about this CD-ROM or the project should be addressed
to:
Christopher J. Schenk, Project Chief
U.S. Geological Survey
Box 25046, Mail Stop 939
Denver Federal Center
Denver, CO 80225-0046
Telephone: (303) 236-5796
E-mail: schenk@usgs.gov
Disclaimer
This Compact Disc-Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) publication
is prepared by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United
States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes
any warranty, expressed or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility
for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus,
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or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement,
recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency
thereof. Although all data and software published on this CD-ROM are used
by the USGS, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS as
to the accuracy of the data and related materials and (or) the functioning
of the software. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such
warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS in the use of these
data, the software, or related materials.
Using
This CD
The descriptive and interpretive text chapters of
this volume are in PDF format. Use Acrobat Reader 5.0 (installer for Mac
and Windows provided on this CD) to access and bring up these chapters.
Oversize plates are also in PDF format; they are listed in the CD in a
folder called “Plates.” Each plate is also linked from a page-size image
within the chapter text where it is discussed; click on the image to go
to the plate; a return button is included on the plate.
The PDF chapters are also accessible as defined by
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Chapter 21, on a Monte Carlo simulation method for
assessment, contains two Excel files (emcee.xls and Emc2.xls) whose inclusion
allows the user to follow and recapture the calculation processes of the
chapter. See the disclaimer section in this ReadMe file. Because not necessarily
every user of this CD has Excel on his/her system, a PDF of the file is
also included here, for observation.
Chapter 28 contains tabular data and graphical images
in support of the Uinta-Piceance Province assessment. The chapter text
PDF contains links to the data and images. Data-table files are presented
as tab-delimited text files (.tab files), usable in spreadsheet and database
software. Graphical and summary-table files are presented as portable document
format files (.pdf files).
GIS information is presented in the Spatial folder
and its subdirectories that contain the spatial data, documentation, and
export files. The Spatial folder also contains the ArcGIS project (up.mxd),
the ArcReader project (up.pmf), and a description of the GIS project in
both .htm and .pdf formats. The Spatial/Doc folder contains metadata for
the Uinta-Piceance Province spatial data in .htm format. The Spatial/Export
folder contains Arc/Info export files (.e00). The Spatial/Geodatabase folder
contains an ArcGIS Personal Geodatabase that supplies the Annotation layers
to the two GIS projects. The Spatial/Images folder contains images used
in both the GIS projects and the Metadata documents. The Spatial/Shape
folder contains ArcView/ArcGIS shapefiles used in the two GIS projects.
GIS Projects—Getting
Started
Uinta-Piceance Province
GIS Project Display Options
There are several display options available to view
spatial data contained on this CD-ROM:
ArcMap
A customized ArcMap project has been included (SPATIAL/UP.mxd)
to facilitate the display of the data. This project is included on the
CD-ROM under the assumption that a large portion of viewers will have access
to ArcMap software. While not necessary to view the data, it is expected
that the use of this project will lend more functionality to the data.
The ArcMap project utilizes relative path names,
which is an option when saving the file. To open the project, start ArcMap
and navigate to the file location on this CD-ROM (SPATIAL/UP.mxd).
ArcReader
If ArcMap software is not available, the ArcMap project
has been converted to an ArcReader project (SPATIAL/UP.pmf). ArcReader
is free software provided byESRI. The ArcReader project maintains most
of the functionality present in the ArcMap project. To open the ArcReader
project, download the ArcReader software from ESRI; start ArcReader and
navigate to the ArcReader .pmf file on this CD-ROM. This freeware may be
downloaded from www.esri.com or follow the link below: Arcreader can be
downloaded for Windows from ESRI’s website http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcreader/download.html
Other
The spatial data are also provided as ESRI Shape
files (see SPATIAL/SHAPE folder) or as ArcInfo 8.2 Export files (see SPATIAL/EXPORT
folder), should the user need to view the data in ArcInfo or a non-ESRI
application
Contents
of This CD-ROM
When the CD is opened, the following folders appear
on the screen:
ACROBAT—contains
installer for Acrobat Reader 5.0.
OPEN_FIRST—from
OPEN_FIRST.pdf in this folder, navigate to the ReadMe file, an executive
summary, pages of chapter titles, and the GIS data and metadata.
PLATES—listing
of and links to oversize plates for the chapters. README—you
can access the ReadMe file from this folder also.
REPORTS—listing
of and links to the chapters, plus oversize versions of images from chapter
16, the two Excel files from chapter 21, and the tabular data for chapter
28. SPATIAL—folder
containing files for the GIS data and metadata.
—In other words, there are several routes to the
information in this volume.
System
Requirements MAC OS
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Power PC processor
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Mac OS 8.6*, 9.0.4, 9.1, or OS X*
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64 MB of RAM
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24 MB of available hard drive space for installation
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CD-ROM drive
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70 MB additional hard drive space for Asian fonts (optional)
*Some features may not be available because of system limitations.
WINDOWS
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Intel Pentium processor
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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)
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64 MB of RAM
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24 MB of available hard drive space for installation
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CD-ROM drive
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70 MB additional hard drive space for Asian fonts (optional)
Note: Installers for Acrobat Reader 5.0 for Windows
and Macintosh platforms are provided on this CD-ROM.
Requirements for ArcReader
for Windows:
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450 MHz Processor
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Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6a or Windows
2000 or Windows XP
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Home and Professional Editions
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128 MB RAM
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200 MB Disk Space
Requirements for
ArcView 8.x for Windows:
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Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6a or Windows
2000 or Windows XP
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Home and Professional Editions
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128 MB RAM, 256 Recommended
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