ENERGY MAP OF SOUTHWESTERN WYOMING, PART B—OIL AND GAS, OIL SHALE,
URANIUM, AND SOLAR

By Laura R.H. Biewick and Anna B. Wilson

U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 843

2014

ABSTRACT

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled oil and gas,
oil shale, uranium, and solar resource information in support
of the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI). The
WLCI represents the USGS partnership with other Department of
the Interior Bureaus, State and local agencies, industry, academia,
and private landowners, all of whom collaborate to maintain
healthy landscapes, sustain wildlife, and preserve recreational and
grazing uses while developing energy resources in southwestern
Wyoming. This product is the second and final part of the Energy
Map of Southwestern Wyoming series (also see USGS Data Series
683, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ds683), and encompasses all of
Carbon, Lincoln, Sublette, Sweetwater, and Uinta Counties, as
well as areas in Fremont County that are in the Great Divide and
Green River Basins.

DISCLAIMERS
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.

This database, identified as DS 843, has been approved for release and
publication by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Although this
database has been subjected to rigorous review and is substantially
complete, the USGS reserves the right to revise the data pursuant to
further analysis and review. Furthermore, it is released on condition
that neither the USGS nor the U.S. Government may be held liable for
any damages resulting from its authorized or unauthorized use.

Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer
system at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 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 such warranty.  The USGS shall not be held
liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or
contained herein.

LIST OF FILES

00Readme.txt
ds843.pdf

WLCI_EnergyMapB.zip:
     NOTE: These files should be kept in the same folder to ensure that
           they work properly.
       
     BaseLayers.gdb
     Metadata
          MRDSuraniumWLCI.htm
          MRDSuraniumWLCI.txt
          MRDSuraniumWLCI.xml
          NOGAssessmentUnitTypes.htm
          NOGAssessmentUnitTypes.txt
          NOGAssessmentUnitTypes.xml
          WLCIwells2012.htm
          WLCIwells2012.txt
          WLCIwells2012.xml

     OilShaleJoinTables
	  Data Dictionaries
	  RESOURCE
	  README.txt
	  WYOS.mdb

     WLCI_EnergyMapB.gdb
     WLCI_EnergyMapB.mxd
     WLCI_EnergyMapB.pmf

Shapefiles.zip

Plates:
     Plate1_WLCI_EnergyMapB.pdf 
     Plate2_OilGasFields.pdf
     Plate2_OilGasFields.xlsx
     Plate3_OilGasAUs.pdf
     Plate3_OilGasAus.xlsx
     Plate4_Uranium.pdf
     Plate4_Uranium.xlsx

Table1.pdf

NOTE: The database WYOS.mdb contains two tables
(WY_Tops_090318 and OilShale_Holes_pts)
that can be joined to the borehole locations shapefile
by the USGSID field (U.S. Geological Survey Oil Shale Assessment Team, 2011).

The WY_Tops_090318 table contains tops and thicknesses
for each oil shale zone. The OilShale_Holes_pts 
table contains detailed resource numbers for each
borehole (U.S. Geological Survey Oil Shale Assessment Team, 2011).

The database (WYOS.mdb) provided here is a condensed version
of the database provided on CD1 and is being used for the
sole purpose of linking tables to borehole locations in the
ArcGIS project (mxd) (U.S. Geological Survey Oil Shale Assessment Team, 2011).

The RESOURCE folder contains total in-place resource
summaries for each oil shale zone. The tables can be joined
to the resource reporting polygon shapefiles by the DXF_TEXT field (U.S.
Geological Survey Oil Shale Assessment Team, 2011).

The Data Dictionaries folder contains detailed descriptions
of the fields contained within both tables (U.S. Geological Survey Oil
Shale Assessment Team, 2011).


HOW TO OBTAIN THE DIGITAL FILES

The digital files constituting this report can be obtained via the
Internet from the U.S. Geological Survey publications website. Go to
the web page at http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/843/ or
http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ds843 and follow the directions to download
the files.

The main product is a Portable Document Format (.pdf) pamphlet, and
maps, which requires Adobe Acrobat for viewing, and from which paper
copies may be printed.  Acrobat software runs on a variety of systems,
and is available for download free of charge from Adobe
at http://www.adobe.com.

ArcReader may be downloaded free of charge from
http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcreader/download for viewing
additional files included in this report.

Excel Viewer may be downloaded free of charge from
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=10 for viewing
additional files included in this report.