· Abstract

· Acknowledgments

· Introduction—Video of Exploration and Production Through Time

· Units of Measure

· Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in the Southwestern Wyoming Province

· Undiscovered Gas in the Mesaverde Total Petroleum System

· The Almond Continuous Gas Assessment Unit

· The Rock Springs–Ericson Gas Assessment Unit

· Undiscovered Gas in the Mesaverde–Lance–Fort Union Composite Total Petroleum System

· The Mesaverde–Lance–Fort Union Continuous Gas Assessment Unit

· Undiscovered Gas in the Lewis Total Petroleum System

· The Lewis Continuous Gas Assessment Unit

· Undiscovered Gas in the Hilliard-Baxter-Mancos Total Petroleum System

· The Hilliard-Baxter-Mancos Continuous Gas Assessment Unit

· Undiscovered Gas in the Mowry Composite Total Petroleum System

· The Mowry Continuous Gas Assessment Unit

· Undiscovered Gas in the Lance–Fort Union Composite Total Petroleum System

· The Lance–Fort Union Continuous Gas Assessment Unit

· Reservoirs That Contain the Majority of Undiscovered Gas Resources

· Live Data and Maps

· In Summary

· References Cited

Live GIS Data and Maps

The objective of this report was to assemble a comprehensive inventory of energy data pertinent to the conservation decisionmaking process and to make these data available online for scientists, resource managers engaged in the Initiative, and other researchers. The way to most efficiently analyze oil and gas development in the WLCI is through the use of geospatial technologies. Maps, data and GIS capabilities are available over the Web at the Energy Resources Science Center WLCI website .

A Web mapping application has been developed by the USGS using ArcGIS Server (ESRI, 2008b) technology. The USGS Web map applications and services provide a number of useful geoprocessing and cartographic functions via an internet browser. The USGS uses ArcGIS Server to distribute maps and GIS capabilities over the Web. ArcGIS Server can work with many different clients, including Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth, ArcGIS Explorer, ArcMap and others. Because it is beyond the scope of this report to describe how to add the USGS ArcGIS Server services to all of these clients, just one of these clients will be described as an example, and that is ArcMap. To add the ArcGIS Server services to an individuals ArcMap (ESRI, 2000b) document, one must add GIS Services from the GIS Server named http://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/arcgis/services. Several folders and individual services reside on this server, and the number of services is being continuously expanded. Three services reside in a folder named WLCI, and the names of those services are oil_gas08, historical08, and wells08. Another service resides in the geology folder and that service name is wyoming. Base-map reference data are included using map services from ArcGIS Online (ESRI, 2008a). ArcGIS Online provides free maps and other content for your ArcGIS. ArcGIS Online services can be added to your ArcMap document by adding GIS Services from http://server.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/services. One of the map services used for this product is ESRI_Imagery_World_2D.

To share and distribute these maps and GIS data, the customized ArcMap (ESRI, 2000b) projects are also available for download at the Energy Resources Science Center WLCI website . ArcGIS Publisher (ESRI, 2008c) was used to create a published map file (.pmf) from each ArcMap document (.mxd). Published maps can be viewed, explored, or printed using any ArcGIS (ESRI, 2000b) desktop product, including the no-cost ArcReader (ESRI, 2008d) application. Users can download and install the ArcReader software from ESRI. Next, download the compressed packaged data for each published map file (.pmf) from the Energy Resources Science Center WLCI website (10 MB each). The compressed pmf files can be accessed by clicking on the GIS Data/Interactive Maps tab. The available pmfs are listed in the GIS Data Finder. GIS downloadable data are also available in shapefile or geodatabase format, as well as detailed documentation, in the form of Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)-compliant metadata.