Biewick, Laura R.H. , 2011, Geodatabase of Wyoming statewide oil and gas drilling activity to 2010: Data Series DS-625, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado.Online Links:
This is a Vector data set. It contains the following vector data types (SDTS terminology):
Horizontal positions are specified in geographic coordinates, that is, latitude and longitude. Latitudes are given to the nearest 0.000001. Longitudes are given to the nearest 0.000001. Latitude and longitude values are specified in Decimal degrees.
The horizontal datum used is (World Geodetic System) WGS 1984.
The ellipsoid used is WGS 1984.
The semi-major axis of the ellipsoid used is 6378137.000000.
The flattening of the ellipsoid used is 1/298.257224.
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Coordinates defining the features.
unique identifier for each well
Name of the company that drilled the well.
Name assigned to oil and(or) gas field.
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| 10 | Federal/Unknown |
| 11 | Federal/Federal |
| 12 | Federal/Fee |
| 13 | Federal/Fee |
| 14 | Federal/State |
| 20 | Patented |
| 23 | Fee/Fee |
| 30 | Fee |
| 34 | Fee/State |
| 40 | State |
| 41 | State/Federal |
| 43 | State/Fee |
| 60 | Tribal |
| 61 | Tribal/Federal |
| 63 | Tribal/State |
y-coordinate
x-coordinate
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| AP | Permit to Drill |
| D | Disposal |
| G | Gas well |
| I | Injector Well |
| M | Monitor Well |
| MW | Monitor Well (Not for Form 2 Reporting) |
| NA | Not Applicable |
| O | Oil well |
| S | Source Well |
| ST | Strat Test |
| WS | Water Source |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| AI | Active Injector |
| AP | Permit to drill |
| DH | Dry Hole |
| DP | Drilling or Drilled Permit |
| DR | Dormant |
| EP | Expired Permit |
| FL | Flowing |
| GL | Gas Lift |
| M | Monitor Well |
| MW | Monitor Well (Not for Form 2 Reporting) |
| NI | Notice of intent to abandon |
| NO | Denied or Cancelled |
| NR | No report |
| PA | Permanently abandoned |
| PG | Producing gas well |
| PH | Pumping hydraulic |
| PL | Plunger lift |
| PO | Producing oil well |
| PR | Pumping rods |
| PS | Pumping submersible |
| S | Source well |
| SI | Shut-in |
| SO | Suspended operations |
| SP | Well spudded |
| SR | Subsequent report of abandonment |
| SW | Source well |
| TA | Temporarily abandoned |
| UK | Unknown |
| WS | Water source |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | 19000101 |
| Maximum: | 20101225 |
Name identifying gas reservoir.
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| Y | Yes (reservoir is a coal bed) |
| N | No (reservoir is not a coalbed) |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| AI | Active Injector |
| DR | Dormant |
| FL | Flowing |
| GL | Gas Lift |
| MW | Monitor Well (Not for Form 2 Reporting) |
| NI | Notice of intent to abandon |
| PA | Permanently abandoned |
| PH | Pumping hydraulic |
| PL | Plunger lift |
| PR | Pumping rods |
| PS | Pumping submersible |
| SI | Shut - in |
| SR | Subsequent report of abandonment |
| SW | Source well |
| TA | Temporarily abandoned |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | 01 |
| Maximum: | 12 |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | 1998 |
| Maximum: | 2010 |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | 19000101 |
| Maximum: | 20101204 |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | 19000101 |
| Maximum: | 20101204 |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | 0 |
| Maximum: | 428444358 |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | 0 |
| Maximum: | 7866291 |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1 | well produced oil |
| 2 | well produced gas |
| 3 | well produced both oil and gas |
| 4 | production is unknown or well is dry |
| 5 | well produced coalbed gas |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | 1900 |
| Maximum: | 2010 |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | 1900 |
| Maximum: | 2010 |
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| Active | Well is considered currently active |
| Inactive | Well is considered currently inactive |
| NULL | Not enough information to populate |
| Range of values | |
|---|---|
| Minimum: | 0 |
| Maximum: | 8080922 |
The USGS acquired the oil and gas wells dataset in Excel spreadsheet format from Robert Meyer, Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (WOGCC) in 2010.
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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) compiled a geographic information system (GIS) of Wyoming statewide oil and gas drilling activity for the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI). The WLCI is representative of the partnerships being formed by the USGS with other Department of the Interior bureaus, State and local agencies, industry, academia, and private landowners that are committed to maintaining healthy landscapes, sustaining wildlife, and preserving recreational and grazing uses as energy resources development progresses in southwestern Wyoming. This product complements the 2009 USGS publication on oil and gas development in southwestern Wyoming (<https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/437/>) by approximating, based on database attributes, the time frame of drilling activity for each well (start and stop dates). This GIS product also adds current oil and gas drilling activity not only in the area encompassing the WLCI, but also statewide. Oil and gas data, documentation, and spatial data processing capabilities are available and can be downloaded from the USGS website. These data represent decades of oil and gas drilling (1900 to 2010), and will facilitate a landscape-level approach to integrated science-based assessments, resource management and land-use decision making.
Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, 2010, Wyoming Wells Database.Online Links:
Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (WOGCC), 2010, Wyoming Wells Database.Online Links:
The data include Well_Class, which is the classification that a well is given initially. The well classification, that is, whether it is being drilled for oil or gas, intended to be a disposal or injector well, or other--is designated when the operator sends in the permit to drill. The intent is to update Well_Class as drilling progresses, but the WOGCC may not always get updated information from the well operators.
There are two status dates: (1) well file status (STATUS), which is the status and date (STATUSDATE) of the last formal notification by the operator to the WOGCC, usually done via a Sundry; and (2) status as of the last Form 2 (FORM2STAT) that is received by the WOGCC from the operator. The two status reports may not match. Once a well is completed, the operators have 30 days to start submitting the form 2 report (monthly production). Even if shut-in after completion, the operators file a monthly form 2 production report until the well is plugged and permanently abandoned (PA). A Sundry notice reports any changes to the well.
Completion dates do not necessarily mean production dates, as a company can complete a well and shut it in without reporting any production. The last completion date (Last_Comp) is the date of the last completion report filing; however, a well is not considered technically to be a nonproducer until it is designated as PA. When classed as PA, the status date overrides the form 2 year. If the price of oil and(or) gas increases sufficiently, then marginally producing wells, as well as PA wells, might be re-opened.
Many wells have stop dates of 2010 (table 1). For these, the Status_2010 attribute indicates whether the well appears to be active or not. For wells with stop dates before 2010, there are 7,197 wells that are attributed as being inactive, but the status for the other 41,014 are unknown (NULL; table 1).
The status of oil and gas wells in the WLCI study area might be further refined by identifying disturbed and reclaimed landscapes from aerial imagery using remote sensing techniques. Remote sensing analysis was not attempted for this study.
The WOGCC database contains about 114,000 wells and is the most complete wells database available for the state of Wyoming.
No warranty is made by the WOGCC for the accuracy of its well data that are being used in this study. However, the assumption was made that the data were of sufficient quality for a regional-scale analysis.
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- Use_Constraints: None
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Downloadable Data
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| Data format: | Contains point features and attributes depicting oil and gas wells in southwestern Wyoming in format Shapefile |
|---|---|
| Network links: |
<http://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/data/wlci/spatial/shape/WYwells2010shapefile.zip> |
| Data format: | Contains point features and attributes depicting oil and gas wells in Wyoming in format ArcGIS Geodatabase (version 9x) |
|---|---|
| Network links: |
<http://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/data/wlci/spatial/geodatabase/WYwells2010geodatabase.zip> |
| Data format: | This file contains a data package and interactive map intended for use in any ArcGIS desktop product, including the no-cost ArcGIS Reader in format ArcGIS Published Map File Package |
|---|---|
| Network links: |
<http://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/data/wlci/spatial/pmf/WYwells2010pmf.zip> |
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.
Send email to datamgt@usgs.gov or call the USGS Central Energy Resources Science Center main office at 303-236-1647.
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